Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Vol. 2) - Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
A French New Novelist and critic, Robbe-Grillet is the author of The Erasers, Jealousy, and Last Year at Marienbad. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time. This almost unknown form, he tells us, is already trying to establish itself in spite of resistance all the way from publishers to the most modest readers "via the bookseller and the critic." Renouncing "sacrosanct psychological analysis," and, as far as possible, the subjective point of view, it tries to reflect the world as it is: neither significant nor absurd, just present…. This bewildering appearance of a world impervious to any frame of reference whatsoever ("sentimental, sociological, Freudian, metaphysical or other") is found by Alain Robbe-Grillet to be much more plainly revealed in the cinema...
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