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| Publisher | Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Publication | The Review of Contemporary Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0276-0045 |
| Issues per Year | 3 |
| Volume | v15 |
| Issue | n3 |
| Published | 1995-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Marc Lowenthal |
| Reviewee | n/a | Robert Pinget |
| Reviewee | n/a | Barbara Wright |
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Robert Pinget's voice and themes have often been compared to those of Beckett (the two were, in fact, friends), and it is Beckett that the stark humor and brevity of his latest two books bring to mind. Although one of the leading practitioners of the nouveau roman, Pinget was less theoretically outspoken than his colleagues and suffered from an initial delay in translation when the nouveau roman was at its height (although nearly all his work is now available to us, most of it impeccably translated by Barbara Wright, Pinget's translator since 1975). It is the unabashed soul-searching...
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