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Claude Simon


Born
in Antananarivo, Madagascar
October 10, 1913

Died
July 06, 2005

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Balzac ...more


Awarded 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, for being an author "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition." ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 2,222 ratings · 312 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors
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“Alors il peut sans doute recommencer à y croire, à les aligner, les ordonner élégamment les uns après les autres, insignifiants, sonores et creux, dans d’élégantes phrases insignifiantes, sonores, bienséantes et infiniment rassurantes, aussi lisses, aussi polies, aussi glacées et aussi peu solides que la surface miroitante de l’eau recouvrant, cachant pudiquement…”
― Claude Simon, The Flanders Road
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