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The novels often dwell on images of old-age such as the decaying 'LSM' or the old woman (that 'flaccid and ectoplasmic Cassandra') in Les Géorgiques which are frequently seen through the uncomprehending eyes of childhood. Themes
Despite these influences Simon's work is thematically and stylistically highly original. Tentative de restitution d'un retable baroque (1957) La Route des Flandres (1960) Le Palace (1962) La Bataille de Pharsale (1969) La Chevelure de Bérénice (Reprise du texte Femmes 1972) Triptyque (1973) "le Discours de Stockholm" (1986 texte prononcé à l'occasion de la remise du Prix Nobel) and Le Jardin des Plantes (1997)]
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After secondary school at Collège Stanislas in Paris and brief sojourns at Oxford and Cambridge he took courses in painting at the André Lhote Academy. He managed to escape and joined the resistance movement. Claude Simon (10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.
