Claude SIMON (1913-2005). 2 L.A.S., 1987-1989, to Professor Alex S. Jones, in Greenville (USA); 2 half-pages in-4, one envelope. Paris March 29, 1987: on his way of working: "You will find my answers in André Rollin's survey Ils écrivent: où, quand, comment? recently published by Editions Mazarine"; he advises young people who like to write to "go out into the street" and when they come back "try to describe what they saw, felt, remembered, and imagined during that short journey; that alone can fill hundreds of pages." - December 6, 1989, answers to three questions: " 1) There is no definition for a character in a novel: it can be Don Quixote as well as Kafka's K. or Emma Bovary. 2) Because I was part of a group that challenged the traditional and stereotyped forms of the novel. 3) To go out into the street, to walk two hundred meters, to return home and to write then all that one saw, felt, cried, imagined... "