La Route des Flandres

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La Route des Flandres is a 1960 novel by French writer Claude Simon, noted for its fragmented, stream-of-consciousness portrayal of soldiers’ experiences during World War II and considered a key work of the Nouveau Roman movement.

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instanceOf novel
associatedWith French New Novel NERFINISHED
author Claude Simon NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
criticalReception considered a major work of the Nouveau Roman
widely studied in literary criticism
genre modernist novel
war novel
hasCharacter Captain de Reixach NERFINISHED
Corinne NERFINISHED
Iglésia NERFINISHED
hasForm prose
hasPageCount approximately 300
hasProtagonist Georges NERFINISHED
hasSubject French cavalry unit retreating in 1940
prisoner-of-war experience
hasTranslation The Flanders Road NERFINISHED
influenced postwar French literature
literaryMovement Nouveau Roman NERFINISHED
mainTheme defeat
memory
subjectivity
time
violence
war
narrativeStructure fragmented
narrativeTechnique stream of consciousness
notableFor experimental narrative form
interior monologue
long, complex sentences
nonlinear chronology
originalLanguage French
partOf Claude Simon’s war cycle NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication Paris NERFINISHED
portrays French soldiers
defeat of the French army in 1940
soldiers’ experiences during World War II
publicationYear 1960
publisher Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED
settingPeriod World War II NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic minimal conventional plot
repetition of scenes and motifs
shifting perspectives
timeManipulation blurring of past and present
frequent flashbacks
translatedInto English

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Les Éditions de Minuit publishedWork La Route des Flandres