by Claude Simon · Les Editions de Minuit · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782707306296
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«La Route des Flandres» is the novel by Claude Simon, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (316 pages, in French).
During the French defeat of 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a German paratrooper; his cousin Georges suspects he was seeking that death. With Blum, a fellow prisoner, and former jockey Iglésia, he tries to reconstruct what happened; later he meets again with Corinne, the widow. Memory, war and truth intertwine.
Originally published in 1960, this edition belongs to Minuit's Double collection.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and of war novels focused on memory.
Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.
