
The Trolley
Claude Simon(Author)
The New Press
Published on 12. July 2002
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-56584-734-7 (ISBN)
Description
At the age of 88, Claude Simon, Nobel Prize-winning author and cultural icon of France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and of old age. His "madeleine" is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from his school every morning of his childhood. Through detailed descriptions, the reader is magically drawn into Simon's childhood with its promises and dangers. As the book progresses, the narrative moves from childhood into old age and Simon moves to a different form of transport, a mobile hospital bed, beginning a different voyage into old age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56584-734-7 (9781565847347)
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Persons
Claude Simon, an innovator of the French new novel style, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1985. He is the author of more than fifteen novels.