The Wind (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Claude Simon
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: A small town in southern France
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, France or French people, Crime or criminals, Nature, Reality, Small-town life, Ethics
- Locales: France
Characters Discussed
Antoine Montès (ahn- TWAHN mohn-TEHZ), age thirty-five, who arrives in a small town to take possession of a vineyard inherited from a father whom he has never known. His mother had left the town and Antoine’s father after she discovered him making love to the maid. Montès fires the bailiff, who refuses to uproot his own family from the property. Montès makes the acquaintance of several people in a town that generally rejects him: Rose (with whom he falls in love), Maurice, distant cousins, the notary, and a stranger (the narrator) whom he meets in a...
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