Jealousy & in the Labyrinth - Softcover

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802128750 ISBN 13: 9780802128751

Publisher: Black Cat, 2018

Synopsis

A collection of two remarkable short novels that epitomize the project of the nouveau roman, Jealousy and In the Labyrinth brings the reader into a world where physical space and time bend and change, where a jalousie window blind resonates with the envy of a jealous husband, and where a soldier making a journey finds himself moving in circular time.

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Review:

Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet:

"Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism."--John Updike

"Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space"--Roland Barthes

"Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time."--Claude Mauriac

"Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding."--Bernard-Henri Lévy

"I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."--New York Times

"Jealousy . . . is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived."--New York Times Book Review

"In the Labyrinth is better than an excellent novel: it is a great work of literature."--Maurice Nadeau, France-Observateur

"A highly emotional experience for the reader . . . Robbe-Grillet will take his place in world literature as a successor of Balzac and Proust."--Parade of Books, on In the Labyrinth

About the Author:

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the nouveau roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Claude Simon. He is the author of The Erasers, The Voyeur, Jealousy, In the Labyrinth, Recollections of the Golden Triangle, and La Maison de Rendez-Vous.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Cat
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0802128750
• ISBN 13: 9780802128751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288