Writing on the ruins in 'Les Derniers Jours de Corinthe:' from reassemblage to reassessment in Robbe-Grillet
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Alain Robbe-Grillet's 'Les Derniers Jours de Corinthe,' the third volume of his autobiography, presents the ruins of autobiography and history as material for a reconstruction undermined again by phantasies taken apart in self-critical irony. How the past is presented indicates that there is no absolute vantage point from which to judge history. Traditional autobiographical conventions such as the use of tense pretend to recapture the past but cannot in fact do so. How the past is perceived is necessarily changed by what has happened since then. Robbe-Grillet is both product and producer of the creative act and of a sado-sexual crime responding to the fear of takeover by another.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1996
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Hydre-miroir: 'Les Romanesques' d'Alain Robbe-Grillet et le pacte fantasmatique
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'Les Romanesques' by Alain Robbe-Grillet has elements of both the novelistic and the autobiographical genre. The work adheres to elements established by Philippe Lejeune in his 'Le Pacte autobiographique' but there are, from the beginning, doubts as to its genre. The author injects elements of fantasy because he realizes that reality is fleeting and fragmentary, that memory's perspective changes according to whether the conscious or the subconscious has the upper hand. It seems fitting that the representative of the Nouveau Roman would not confine himself to one genre. The text of the article is in French.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1996
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'La Belle Captive': Magritte, Robbe-Grillet et le surrealisme
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'La Belle Captive' (1975) is a collaborative work, a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet with paintings by Rene Magritte, created with the intention of subverting ideas of the real in favor of imaginary constructions. The 'captive beauty' can be understood as the fictive body revealed by art. The work indicates a connection between surrealism and the 'nouveau roman.' Article text is in French.
Publication Name: The French Review
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-111X
Year: 1999
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