Pinget, Robert (Vol. 13) - Introduction

Pinget, Robert 1919–

Pinget, a Swiss-French novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist, is also a painter. His work bears the influence of both the New Novel movement and the concepts of the theater of the absurd. Pinget's purpose is to expose the fragmented communication that characterizes contemporary life. This is reflected in prose lacking a coherent narrative structure, and in which language itself is fragmented. (See also CLC, Vol. 7.)