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