The Wind (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Simon
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Antistory
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: A small town in the south of France
- Principal Characters: Antoine Montès, Rose, Jep, Maurice, Cécile, Hélène, The Notary, The Narrator
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, France or French people, Crime or criminals, Nature, Reality, Small-town life, Ethics
- Locales: France
The Novel
Antoine Montès arrives in a small town in the south of France to claim the vineyard bequeathed to him by a father he has never known. Thirty-five years earlier, his mother left his father after learning of his infidelity. She did not tell her husband that she was pregnant, declined to divorce him or accept money from him, and never allowed him to see his son. Montès is expected to sell his father’s property, for which he is offered a large sum of money, but shocks the town by announcing that he intends to stay.
When Montès attempts to fire the...
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