In the Labyrinth (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: New Novel
- Time of Work: World War II
- Setting: A French city
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, A Soldier, A Woman, A Boy, A lame Man
- Genres: Long fiction, New Novel
- Subjects: France or French people, World War II, Doctors, Soldiers
- Locales: France
The Novel
Traditional terms of literary analysis such as “plot” and “character” do not apply comfortably to the New Novel form credited to Alain Robbe-Grillet. In a series of essays collected under the title Pour un nouveau roman (1963; For a New Novel, 1965), Robbe-Grillet describes such terms as “several obsolete notions”:
We are so accustomed to discussions of “character,” “atmosphere,” “form,” and “content,” of “message” and “narrative ability” and “true novelists” that it requires an effort to free...
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