Claude Simon

Lastly I want to mention Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes, and a comment I saw from Douban. "Read half of it and discarded the book, such a pain. This is not only a novel but a visual work. It's a book not for reading but for looking." Out of curiosity I bought a used copy from Kongfuzi, a website specializing in second hand books, since there were not any more new editions.