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