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The Flanders Road by Claude Simon

March 13, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Flanders OK, let me just put this out there. Unconstructed prose is not my jam. Page after page with no structure, no punctuation, no paragraphs, OK, no. Looking at you James Joyce. Dubliners? Love. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Well OK. Finnigan’s Wake? OK, now we having issues. Ulysses? Oooohhh no. So I feel guilty about not giving this a better rating because it is not my cup of tea, but I suspect it is well written. Generally when I give […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Benelux history, CBR15Passport, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Benelux history, CBR15Passport, claude simon, French history, Paragraph and punctution free, Repetitive relationships, stream of consciousness, Trench warfare, WWI and WWII ·
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