For some reason he is never mentioned whenever people discuss difficult writers like Gass or Joyce ; this nigga is like an amalgation of Faulkner and Proust but is probably the most visceral writer out there if you manage to get past the experimentationWon the Nobel prize of literature and no one knows him even in France btw
>no one knows this very famous Éditions Minuit writer who built up the imprint's nameYep. And nobody in France knows who Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, Duras, or Sauraute.
>>25496221Only one of those writers are worth reading.
>>25496226Congrats. You just outed yourself as someone who doesn't like literature. Enjoy your sci-fi slop.
>>25496221Everybody knows Beckett and Duras. At some point every kid has to read Godot
>>25496229>babby coping Maybe if you stopped writing like a predditor, you’d develop actual taste outside just pasting the names of writers of the french new novel you just discovered + Beckett
>>25496226Duras can be great, but she's very inconsistent. I'd rather read her than Gertrude Stein when it comes to ''experimental'' literature.
>>25496242>+ Beckettuh oh, the monomutt is having a ditzy moment
>>25496221Yeah, no shit. That's what happens when a country gets spiritually and literally niggerified. They don't even produce any sci-fi anymore, so they're fucked from base level slop upward. I will say that they had it coming however.
>>25496170Always mix up the names with Simenon. How is he (Simon) btw? where to start?
>>25496242>n-no you can't have possibly read these authors !!!>I'm the only person who has ever heard of them !!!
>>25496221>DurasThey actually do to some extent, she was quite famous in the heyday of nouveau roman>>25496279No idea if you don't speak French, but probably La Route des Flandres
>>25496596she mainly famous due to who she was fucking, like a socialite with sustained academic and media attention drawn into her because of her connections. the superior french marguerite novelist will always be yourcenar, duras can't even hold a candle to her.
>>25496604Who is she known for fucking? Antelme, Mascolo, some fags? Surely no one as well known as she.
>>25496604Name more than 1 book by Marguerite Yourcenar (i.e. not Mémoires d'Hadrien). Post a timestamped pic of it to prove you've read it.
>a thread one of the best authors of the 20th century (imo the best) gets derailed by a bunch of retards Classic.>>25496279If you like Proust, read Histoire.If you like Faulkner, read L'herbe or Le vent (Claude Simon was basically a French Faulkner up until La route des Flandres (1960) - same kind of sentences, same tone, lack of introducing characters, etc. also, Le sacre du printemps is structured roughly in the same way as The Sound and the Fury).If you like Dostoievsky-ish stuff, read La corde raide.If you like avant-garde textual assembly and cold descriptions à la Robbe-Grillet (though miles better), read his 1970s books (Les corps conducteurs, Tryptique, Leçon de choses).If you want to fall off your chair, read L'acacia or Le jardin des Plantes.Otherwise, if you're unsure what you prefer, just start with La route des Flandres.Claude Simon should be read slowly, word by word and not trying to rush towards the end of the page, otherwise it all falls apart.
>>25497018Wtf are you doing on this dumb ass board with your qualitative reply?
