La transgression de l’Histoire dans les romans de Claude Simon : entre contingence historique et choix esthétique
Transgressing History in Claude Simon’s Novels: Between Historical Contingency and Aesthetic Choice

Summary/Abstract: How is he to combines history /History and fiction? These arethe aesthetic challenges that Claude Simon contemplates in hisnovels, where he brings together his daily life, the wars of hisancestors, his own war experience, as well as stories about various armed conflicts. The ordeals his characters go through reveal all this troubled and painful past. Great History and personal « small » history flow concurrently, both taking shape along terrible individual, family and collective experiences caused by the war. In a fragmentary and seemingly random manner, without involving chronology, the narrative lacking any structure delivers bits and pieces about each of the two World Wars, echoed by other conflicts, on a different scale. At times, History appears to be consumed by fiction, but it still remains a steady, albeit shadowy, mysterious presence, ready to be conjured up by the reader’s cooperation.

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