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Claude Simon, Richard Howard (Translator), John Fletcher (Introduction) 3.60. 610 ratings95 reviews. During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, which led to the fall of France, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper.
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Jul 12, 2022 · by Claude Simon (Author), Richard Howard (Translator), Jerry W. Carlson (Introduction) 3.9 26 ratings. See all formats and editions. By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII.
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Mar 29, 2022 · The Flanders road. by. Simon, Claude. Publication date. 1985. Topics. France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction. Publisher. London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press.
Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road .
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Jul 29, 2022 · Simon’s memories of the slaughter inform his watershed 1960 novel “The Flanders Road,” which has been reissued by New York Review Books in the magnificent 1961 translation by Richard...
- Sam Sacks
The Flanders Road, the work for which Claude Simon, the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Literature, is best known in the English-speaking world, is a brilliant and satisfying novel on...
The Flanders Road by Claude Simon - The 1448th greatest book of all time. The novel delves into the complexities of memory and the chaos of war, weaving together the narratives of several characters whose lives are entangled by the events of World War II.
