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Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.

Claude Simon

The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy—terribly bloody—but a comedy all the same.

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All my life I have been favored by incredible luck. It would take too long to enumerate all of the occasions...

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

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Born: October 10, 1913

Died: July 6, 2005 (aged 91)

Bio: Claude Simon was a French novelist and critic, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Known for:

La route des Flandres (1960)
Die Akazie (1989)
The Flanders Road (1960)
The Jardin des Plantes (1997)
The Trolley (2002)

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