Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Vol. 4) - Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
A French anti-novelist and critic, Robbe-Grillet writes fiction in which cinematographic representations of "things" are accumulated in pursuit of "reality," which is defined in terms of the things themselves. Vehemently opposed to the plots, psychological development, metaphors, adjectives, and pathetic fallacies that are the apparatus of the traditional novel, he pushes language away from "meaning" in an attempt to reinvent man in terms of the total reality of things. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
A few points in Robbe-Grillet's reflections on his art stand out. He wishes to banish the story and all anecdotes more or less pertaining to it, as had been already the dream of Flaubert and that of Joyce…. In La Maison de rendezvous (1965), Robbe-Grillet, forsaking all pretense of being a thinker among novelists or a psychologist competing with Flaubert and Nathalie Sarraute, even...
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