The Flanders Road (La Route des Flandres)
Simon is one of the representatives of the "new novel" and in this novel, he describes the starting point from the author's life experience when, as a cavalryman in Flanders in 1940, he fought against German armored units and witnessed the collapse of the French army.
The novel is difficult to read. It depicts states of human consciousness, in which both the past and the present are constantly mixed.
In 1940, during World War II, German soldiers invaded France. The novel starts when the Germans shot Captain de Reixach. The main protagonists in the novel are Wack, Blum, and Georges, an orderly man, a jockey who had an affair with the captain's wife and his distant relative. The author included their life stories in the plot of this novel.
Did the captain want to die? This mystery becomes an obsession for Georges.
The narrator also describes the chaos of the war.
"… often happens that he sees her in the queens on the playing cards."Claude Simon (10 October 1913 - 6 July 2005) was a French novelist.
Claude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar.
His parents were French.
After secondary school at Collège Stanislas in Paris and brief study at Oxford and Cambridge, he took courses in painting at the André Lhote Academy.
He traveled extensively through Spain, Germany, Soviet Union, Italy, and Greece.
La Route des Flandres (The Flanders Road, 1960) is his most popular novel.
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