Claude Simon

Claude Simon (10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combined the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition.

Works

Le Tricheur/The Cheat 1945
La Corde Raide/The Tightrope 1947
Gulliver 1952
Le Sacre du printemps/The Anointment of Spring 1954
Le vent. Tentative de restitution d 'un rétable baroque/The Wind. Attempted Restoration of a Baroque Altarpiece 1957
L'Herbe/The Grass 1958
La Route des Flandres/The Flanders Road 1960
Le Palace/The Palace 1962
La Separation/The Separation 1963 (Play adapted from the novel L'Herbe)
Femmes/Women. Ill by Joan Miró. - New edition entitled La Chevelure de Bérénice/Berenice's Hair 1984
Histoire/Story 1967
La Bataille de Pharsale/The Battle of Pharsalus 1969
Orion aveugle. Essai/Blind Orion. Essay 1970
Les Corps conducteurs/Conducting Bodies 1971
Triptyque/Triptych 1973
Leçon de choses/Lesson in Things 1975
Les Géorgiques/The Georgics 1981
L'Invitation/The Invitation 1987
L'Acacia/The Acacia 1989
Le jardin des plantes/The Jardin des Plantes 1997
Le tramway/The Trolley 2001
Oeuvres, Collection Pléiade, Gallimard 2006[with Le Vent, 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)]