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Simon, Claude Eugène Henri was born on October 10, 1913 in Tananarive, Madagascar. Son of Louis and Suzanne (Denamiel) Simon.
(We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us,"...)
We are obsessed with "barbarians." They are the "not us," who don't speak our language, or "any language," whom we despise, fear, invade and kill; for whom we feel compassion, or admiration, and an intense sexual interest; whose innocence or vigor we aspire to, and who have an extraordinary influence on the comportment, and even modes of dress, of our civilized metropolitan lives; whom we often outdo in the barbarism we impute to them; and whose suspected resemblance to us haunts our introspections and imaginings. This book looks afresh at how we have confronted the idea of "barbarism," in ourselves and others, from the conquest of the Americas to the Nazi Holocaust, through the voices of many writers, including Montaigne, Swift and Shaw.
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Simon, Claude Eugène Henri was born on October 10, 1913 in Tananarive, Madagascar. Son of Louis and Suzanne (Denamiel) Simon.
Educated, College Stanislas, Paris. Doctor of Letters, University East Anglia, Norwich. DHC, University Bologna.
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Author: (fiction) Le Tricheur, 1945, Gulliver, 1952, Le Sacre du printemps, 1954, Le Vent: tentative de restitution d'un rétable baroque, 1957 (public as The Wind: Attempted Restoration of a Baroque Masterpiece, 1959), L'Herbe, 1958 (public as The Grass, 1960), La Route des Flandres, 1960 (public as The Flanders Road, 1961. Prix de l'Express 1960), Le Palace, 1962 (public as The Palace, 1963), Historie 1967 (Prix Medicis 1967), La Bataille de Pharsale, 1969 (public as The Battle of Pharsalus, 1971), Les Corps conducteurs, 1971 (public as Conducting Bodies, 1974), Triptyque, 1973 (public as Triptych, 1976, Leçon de choses, 1975 (public as The World About Us, 1983), Les Géorgiques, 1981 (public as The Georgics, 1989). (play) La Séparation, 1963.
(other writings) La Corde raide, 1947, Femmes, 1966 (public as La Chevelure de Bérénice, 1983), Orion aveugle, 1970, Discours de Stockholm, 1987, L'acacia, 1989, Photographies, 1992, Le Jardin des Plantes, 1997, Le Trolley, 2001, Le Tramway, 2003.
Married Yvonne Ducuing, 1951 (divorced). Married Réa Karavas, 1978, 1978.