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Claude
Simon: 19132005
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Simon
(above) wrote 12 novels, employing a disorderly style that embraced accumulations
of words, descriptions, fragments and impressions that he said were an attempt
to be truer to life as we live it.
He cited Tolstoy, who said, "A man in good health is all the time thinking, feeling and recalling an incalculable number of things all at once." To which I would say, does this not make our reality simply the result of an ongoing calculation, in which we compute what our senses input? A calculus of fragments which is extruded as an allencompassing, allinclusive "reality." But I digress. |
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| Simon
won the Nobel Prize in 1985, predictably driving the literary establishment
bonkers as inevitably happens when the Swedish selectors choose someone
whose work is, to most people, impenetrable.
In his Nobel lecture he said, "No longer prove but reveal, no longer reproduce but produce, no longer express but discover." He once said to his critics, mockingly, "I am a difficult, boring, unreadable, confused writer." Hey, I'll drink to that. But I digress yet again. |
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| Simon said,
"Those who reproach my novels for having neither a beginning nor an
end are correct."
Here is an example of
his style, from "Lecon de Choses" (1975): |
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