The Battle of Pharsalus;

by Claude Simon, Richard Howard (Translator)

English, French (translation)

187 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Awarded 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, for being an author "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition."

Reviews

[Ripleyland · Rating 5 out of 5]

This novel employs Simon’s middle style wherein, possibly caused by his experiences with PTSD late in life from his experiences in the Meuse Offensive, his already loose hold on reality was slipping, of which is something of a fixture of Simon’s works meaning that he utilized himself as a test subject to further dissect and eviscerate the lacerations caused by his existence.