The "new novel" school opposes the traditional novel creation method, and advocates that writers get rid of the inherent moral concepts and thoughts and feelings, break the restrictions of traditional novels on time and space structure and narrative order, and use the methods of stream of consciousness, alternation of reality and time and space inversion to describe the world of things purely and objectively. This kind of novels avoid social problems and focus on revealing the absurdity of the world and life. It has great influence in Europe and even the world, and began to decline in the late 1960s. The New Fiction School is not a conscious and organized school, and every writer has his own characteristics in his creation.
In the writing technique of the new novel school, Simon showed it incisively and vividly. His previous painting experience had a great influence on novel creation. Grand Hotel is claude simon's first attempt to combine writing with painting. The Grand Hotel has only a few vague characters and no clear plot. The whole novel has no beginning or end, but the plot of the fragment is vivid. What Simon told the reader was not a story of joys and sorrows, but a vague impression. In the novel, words and punctuation are harmonious, giving people visual thickness.
Simon wrote more than 20 novels in his life. His first novel The Forger was published in 1945, and his first important work The Wind was published in 1957. Since then, it has entered the peak of creation, and works have been published almost every year. The war experience directly contributed to his creation of the classic novel Flanders Highway in 1960, and won the "trendy literature prize" of that year. 1962 produced a hotel with unique creative techniques, and then he completed history and fashion in 1967 and 1969. These four masterpieces of the 1960s made him occupy a decisive position in the French literary world. 1970 and 197 1 year, he created Olivon for the blind and the conductor. Sanlian and Family Poems met with readers in 1973 and 198 1 year. After entering the 1990s, his work Botanical Garden was published in 1997.
Simon served as a member of the jury of "Medici Prize for Literature", one of the five French literary awards, from 1968 to 1970. 1985, at the age of 72, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which indicated that the artistic achievements of the French "New Fiction School" were affirmed by the international literary world. Western critics believe that he is an outstanding novelist with the most realistic tendency.
"French literature has lost one of its greatest writers."
Claude simon is brilliant, but he keeps a low profile. According to the writer's habit before his death, the news of his death was announced to the public on the 9 th.
For his death, French Prime Minister De Villepin commented that "the French literary world has lost one of the greatest writers". De Villepin said that Simon's works are unique in writing. His novels show the world the amazing historical picture of the last century with great personality, and Simon witnessed the war and violence of mankind in the last century. Reno Donodio Vabre, French Minister of Culture, said that as a representative writer of the French "new novel" genre, Simon enjoys a high reputation both in France and in the world literary world.
The climax of "new novels" entering China began in 1980s. It was in this era that Simon's works were translated and introduced to China. The Series of Twentieth Century French Literature published by China includes Simon's masterpiece Flanders Expressway, which, together with Eraser by Alain Rob Gerye, has become two works that China creative critics can't avoid when talking about the genre of French "new novels". A generation of famous artists will die, but they left a valuable creative legacy to future generations.