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Claude Simon - Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present (Hardcover)
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Claude Simon - Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present (Hardcover)
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Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present considers
the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical facets of a temporal
paradox in the works of French novelist Claude Simon (1913-2005),
and its broader implications for the study of narrative, and for
cultural and post-modern theory. This paradox emerges from the
problematic representation of the past through an aesthetic rooted
in an exclusive valorization of the present. In his 1985 Nobel
speech, as well as on other numerous occasions, Simon expressed a
fascination with simultaneity through the provocative claim that he
never wrote about the past, but attempted to capture only what was
happening during the writing process, that is, in the "present of
writing," as he put it. Simon's seemingly unambiguous claim raises
significant issues and contradictions that become extensively
apparent when the statement is considered in the light of his
fictional works, since these must be construed, for the most part,
as explorations of the past. In this study Alina Cherry propose to
look at the tensions that arise from this paradox, and examine the
present of writing holistically-that is both as a stylistic device
and within the thematic context of Simon's works-in order to assess
its capacity for becoming an instrument of ontological and
epistemological inquiry that can also intervene powerfully in the
decisive philosophical and socio-political debates that have
animated the cultural landscape of post-World War II France.
Simon's vivid portrayals of suffering and devastation open new ways
of understanding the impact of some of the most traumatic
historical events of the twentieth century: the two World Wars and
the Spanish Civil War. This impact is necessarily connected with a
need to tell these events, and to tell them in highly innovative
ways, namely by creating a distinctive style that revolutionizes
the outworn narrative traditions of a world whose very foundations
have been shattered by the chaos of war and effectively undermines
various institutions and dominant socio-cultural structures,
revealing implicitly and explicitly, a strong ethical vein.
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