The Battle of Pharsalus (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Simon
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: 1968
- Setting: Paris, France; on board a train in Europe; and Greece
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1960’s, Sex or sexuality, Paris, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, War, Painting or painters, Trains, Greek or Roman times, Time, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Paris, France, Greece
Characters Discussed
O., the narrator and principal character in a series of events that are not told chronologically but are instead presented as the free play of his memory, which acts as a kind of “mobile,” circling and changing position around a few fixed points, the most important events of his life. O.’s profession is never stated, but he is a classical scholar of sorts, and he is fascinated by the Battle of Pharsalus, about which he read as a schoolboy and the exact location of which, as an adult, he has tried to find in the north of Greece. His translations of...
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