1st Edition

Alain Robbe-Grillet

By John Fletcher Copyright 1983
94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

General Editors’ Preface.  Preface and Acknowledgements.  A Note on the Texts.  1. Threshold and Labyrinth  2. Anxiety and Enigma  3. Love and Loss  4. Sex and Stereotype  5. Theory and Practice  6. Conclusion.  Notes.  Bibliography.

Biography

John Fletcher