Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Vol. 6) - Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
A French novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and critic, Robbe-Grillet is a principal theoretician and practitioner of the "new novel." (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Robbe-Grillet [is] far more interested in than interesting about his inventions; [on the other hand, his] peculiar involvement in them, and the oddity of the inventions themselves, doesn't always leave one cold…. One can in fact find oneself positively choosing to fret about what's going on in these novels, wanting to ponder and plunder (as it were) their poverty, for signs, significantions, symbols, anything that might yield a mote of interest or a beam of light from the slit-like purview of their voids. And it's possible to come off not completely empty-handed. One could say, for example, that here is a writer who teaches us something about the fine art of literary boredom, the kind of anxiety it implies, and the latest twist...
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