Author: Claude Simon

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• Paul Valery (1)
  • IN: The Wind (1957) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: The world is incessantly threatened by two dangers: order and disorder.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Bismarck (1)
  • IN: The Invitation (1987) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: The only permanent factor in history is geography.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Boris Pasternak (1)
  • IN: The Grass (1958) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
    FROM: "Doctor Zhivago", (1957), Novel, Russia
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Trolley (2001) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: ... for him the meaning of an episode is not to be found within it, as inside a nut, but outside, enveloping the tale which has generated it as a light generates a vapor...
    FROM: Heart of Darkness, (1902), Novel, Ukraine/England
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The Trolley (2001) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: ... since an image is the essential element, a simplification entirely suppressing real characters would be a decisive improvement.
    FROM: In Search of Lost Time, (1913), Novel, France