Histoire

by Claude Simon

Personnages : un narrateur, sa mère, sa femme Hélène, son oncle Charles, sa cousine Corinne, Paulou le frère de celle-ci, et quelques autres encore.
Mais, comme pour chacun de nous, on sait bien que les personnages, de même que les objets ou les paysages perçus, remémorés, imaginés et décrits sont, en fait, autant de parties du narrateur qui, lui-même...

Genres: 20th Century

402 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

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."

Reviews

[Omar Abu Samra]

Like Time dilation, if you dare Sir!

[Tim Burnette]

Easily the most Simon of any Claude Simon I’ve read, almost totally incoherent in its formal structure for the entirety of the work, yet the prose is so lucid it doesn’t matter, he talks of every possible pixel of fading photographs, post cards, letters in a home where the parents have died, where the familial history is ending. A book that exists in between the moments a camera flash turns into a photo turns into a memory turns into a forgotten one. Probably the best novel I’ve read

[Auttajahai]

Toi takaisin tänne. Mahtava!