The Flanders Road Av Claude Simon

<p>During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities – a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife – remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death.<br><br>A groundbreaking work, for which Claude Simon devised a prose technique mimicking the mind’s fluid thought processes, <i>The Flanders Road</i> is not only a masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal – based on a real-life incident – of the chaos and savagery of war.</p>