The Flanders Road (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Simon
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: 1940-1945
- Setting: Northeastern France, Nazi Germany, and Paris
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, 1940’s, Paris, War, Adultery, Death or dying, Military life or service, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Prisoners of war, Time
- Locales: France, Paris, France, Germany
Characters Discussed
Georges (zhohrzh), the narrator, a young cavalry soldier and prisoner of war. He is obsessed with Corinne de Reixach as a means of determining whether her husband’s death was an accident of war or a suicide. The product of a solid classical education but little real-life experience, Georges possesses a cultivated contempt for authority and scorns his parents’ intellectual and aristocratic pretensions. With the French army en route and in an attempt to reestablish a sense of order, Georges becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of de Reixach’s...
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