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Book The Flanders Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Simon
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 1681375958
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road. Here Simon’s own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. Georges reviews the circumstances and sense—or senselessness—of that death, first in the company of a fellow prisoner in a POW camp and then some years later in the course of an ever more erotically charged visit to the captain’s widow, Corinne. As he does, other stories emerge: Corinne’s prewar affair with the jockey Iglésia, who would become the captain’s orderly; the possible suicide of an eighteenth-century ancestor, whose grim portrait loomed large in Georges’s childhood home; Georges’s learned father, whose books are no help against barbarism. The great question throughout, the question that must be urgently asked even as it remains unanswerable, is whether fiction can confront and respond to the trauma of history.

Book Flanders Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Simon
  • Publisher : Alma Books
  • Release : 2018-08-28
  • ISBN : 0714549312
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.A groundbreaking work, for which Claude Simon devised a prose technique mimicking the mind's fluid thought processes, The Flanders Road is not only a masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal - based on a real-life incident - of the chaos and savagery of war.

Book The Flanders Road

Download or read book The Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Captain de Reixach is killed by a German sniper, three of his fellow soldiers look back on his life.

Book The Flanders Road

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Simon
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 1681375966
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Flanders Road written by Claude Simon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, a riveting, stylistically audacious modernist epic about the French cavalry's bloody face-off against German Panzer tanks during WWII. On a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was among the French forces. As they retreated, he saw his captain shot off his horse by a German sniper. This is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel The Flanders Road. Here Simon’s own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. Georges reviews the circumstances and sense—or senselessness—of that death, first in the company of a fellow prisoner in a POW camp and then some years later in the course of an ever more erotically charged visit to the captain’s widow, Corinne. As he does, other stories emerge: Corinne’s prewar affair with the jockey Iglésia, who would become the captain’s orderly; the possible suicide of an eighteenth-century ancestor, whose grim portrait loomed large in Georges’s childhood home; Georges’s learned father, whose books are no help against barbarism. The great question throughout, the question that must be urgently asked even as it remains unanswerable, is whether fiction can confront and respond to the trauma of history.

Book Kelly s Directory of Essex  Hertfordshire and Middlesex

Download or read book Kelly s Directory of Essex Hertfordshire and Middlesex written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orion Blinded

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  • Author : Randi Birn
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN : 9780838724200
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Orion Blinded written by Randi Birn and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not in catalog (Orion Blinded)

Book The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567 1659

Download or read book The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567 1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-03-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division

Download or read book Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relationship of Toll Facilities to the Federal aid Highway Program

Download or read book Relationship of Toll Facilities to the Federal aid Highway Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington  Conn

Download or read book Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington Conn written by Heman Rowlee Timlow and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition

Download or read book Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition written by W. Haresign and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition — 1987 focuses on the advancement of techniques, procedures, and processes in animal nutrition. The selection first discusses techniques for identifying the metabolizable energy (ME) content of poultry feeds and the impact of declaration of ME value of poultry feeds. Methods for determining the ME of feeds; formulation of products and declaration of energy; species and ages of birds; and analytical problems are considered. The book also discusses the effects of diarrhea and wet litter in meat poultry; the inclusion of phosphorus in the diet of laying hens; natural products for egg yolk pigmentation; and the addition of enzymes to enhance the utilization of pig and poultry diets. The text also examines the nutrition of goats and cattle; immunity, nutrition, and performance in animal production; and methods of identifying the amino acid requirement of pigs. The book highlights as well the reactions of consumers to meat quality. Consumption trends; changes in eating patterns, retailing, and consumer purchasing patterns; and fatness and eating quality are considered. The book is a good source of information for readers wanting to study animal nutrition.

Book The London Gazette

Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ICC Register

Download or read book ICC Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Darconville s Cat

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  • Author : Alexander Theroux
  • Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
  • Release : 1996-04-15
  • ISBN : 9780805043655
  • Pages : 728 pages

Download or read book Darconville s Cat written by Alexander Theroux and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a women's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students

Book Shielded

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  • Author : KayLynn Flanders
  • Publisher : Ember
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 0593118561
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Shielded written by KayLynn Flanders and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Furyborn comes a thrilling new fantasy about a kingdom ravaged by war, and the princess who might be the key to saving not only those closest to her, but the kingdom itself, if she reveals the very secret that could destroy her. The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans. As the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn's--her brother's--magical abilities, so the king promises her hand in marriage to the prince of neighboring Turia in exchange for resources Hálendi needs. Jenna must leave behind everything she has ever known if she is to give her people a chance at peace. Only, on the journey to reach her betrothed and new home, the royal caravan is ambushed, and Jenna realizes the rumors were wrong--the new threat is worse than anyone imagined. Now Jenna must decide if revealing a dangerous secret is worth the cost before it's too late--for her and for her entire kingdom. A Whitney Award Nominee "A gorgeous fantasy that captivates from beginning to end."--KATHRYN PURDIE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Burning Glass and Bone Crier's Moon "YA fantasy at its most fun."--DANA SWIFT, author of Cast in Firelight

Book The Living Age

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 778 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: