Gone with The Wind

Or

On Flanders Road the Crap does Flow

Claude Simon, the French author whose long pointless novels confused the Nobel Committee enough to convince them of his brilliance and award him the 1985 Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 91. Simon eschewed such bourgeois concepts as narrative structure, character development and plot in such novels as “The Swindler,” “The Wind,” The Grass,” and “The Flanders Road,” in favor of seemingly random words and phrases as one tedious description tumbled into the next.