{"product_id":"flanders-road","title":"Flanders Road","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFlanders Road\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eClaude Simon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681375953\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the primal scene to which Simon returns repeatedly in his fiction and nowhere so powerfully as in his most famous novel \u003ci\u003eThe Flanders Road\u003c\/i\u003e. Here Simon's own memories overlap with those of his central character, Georges, whose captain, a distant relative, dies a similar death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorges 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Flanders Road | Claude Simon | Paperback | 9781681375953 | New | Fiction 1437078","offer_id":50563879174402,"sku":"1437078","price":29.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41x1u8mZrGL.jpg?v=1790748667","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/flanders-road","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}