Claude Simon, The Inexhaustible Chaos Of The World
Come to the Institut Francais d Ecosse on Thursday 21st May for a special screening of Alain Fleischer's documentary 'Claude Simon, the Inexhaustible Chaos of the World'!
About Claude Simon, The Inexhaustible Chaos Of The World
| 21st May 2026 | |
| 5pm | |
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Institut Francais d Ecosse Institut Français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1RF |
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| £5 Full Price / Free for French Institute members | |
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Join us for a special screening of Alain Fleischer’s documentary “Claude Simon, the Inexhaustible Chaos of the World”.
It will be introduced by Dominique Viart, and preceded by a short introduction to “Claude Simon and life writing” by Alastair Duncan.
The French novelist Claude Simon, 1913 to 2005, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. His novels from Le Tricheur (1945) to Le Tramway (2001) transpose his life in increasingly autobiographical form – a life marked by the death of his father at the front in 1914 and by his own experience of Spain in revolution in 1936 and as a cavalryman on horseback in May 1940. His novels reconstruct the past in vivid, sensuous, fragmentary detail and with deep sympathy for the victims of History. Alastair Duncan, Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Stirling University, was responsible for the two-volume collected edition of Simon’s works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
Alain Fleischer’s film is based on the exhibition he designed and curated which was held in the Centre Pompidou in 2013. Alain Fleischer is a noted film director, author, artist and photographer with many works to his credit and prizes from the Académie Française for his short stories and for his book on accents, L’accent Une langue fantôme.
Dominique Viart, professor emeritus of the University of Paris/Nanterre, is one of France’s foremost experts on contemporary French literature. His many books include La Littérature française au présent and Anthologie de la littérature française contemporaine. He initiated and organised the exhibition on which the film is based and founded the Association of Readers of Claude Simon which is organising this three-day event.
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