Alain Robbe-Grillet (Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction, #16) (Contemporary Writers S.)

by John Fletcher

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Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were partly to blame for this unattractive picture, belied by the immense popular success of the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (made by Alain Resnais from Robbe-Grillet's script) and the high critical esteem in which novels like Jealousy and The Voyeur are held.

In his original study, first published in 1983, John Fletcher attempts to resolve this paradox by offering a new interpretation...

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  • ISBN10 0416344208
  • ISBN13 9780416344202
  • Publish Date 17 November 1983
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Out of Print 12 June 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Language English