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In his novel  Les Géorgiques  (published in 1981), Claude Simon reviews and evaluates different methods for the creation and generation of historical meaning whilst upholding the simultaneity of possibilities and alleged aporias of this critical endeavour. History is presented as a paradoxical force that seems to move endlessly in circles without proceeding, as an aimlessly wandering maelstrom, sweeping everything away without mercy. Simon subjects conventional ideas of history as well as the literary presentation of war-memories to a harsh critique by using the example of a narrative linking of the destinies of three men who are – each at their own times – confronted with direct and indirect effects of war in general. In this way, Simon succeeds in making his readers aware of the failure of several classical narrative conceptions of historical sense-making. However,  Les Géorgiques  does not hold at a mere de-constructive criticism, but rather evolves and shows in a re-constructive manner literary alternatives of historical sense-generation as narrative attempts to overcome conflicts of content and medium. This article aims to present the subversive narrative program of Claude Simon’s  Les Géorgiques  to investigate, if a ›literary text‹ can accomplish a critical position towards this discourse by using a concatenation of a literary production and factually established historical content and thus become an appropriate medium of negotiation of the dichotomy of history and story.

Historische Sinnstiftung in Claude Simons Roman Les Géorgiques : Traditionelle Konzepte de- und rekonstruiert