Literary Birthday – 10 October – Claude Simon

Claude Simon was born 10 October 1913 and died 6 July 2005.

Claude Simon Quotes

1. Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
2. For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
3. There is no such thing as a ‘real’ representation of ‘reality.’ Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
4. To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Claude Simon was a French novelist and critic. He was awarded the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

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by Amanda Patterson

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