Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
It’s Jahsonic fave Alain Robbe-Grillet day at Dennis Cooper’s [1]. I am honored to have received by John Coulthart the “Arte y pico” award [2]. I’d like to pass the meme to Au carrefour étrange[3], Dennis Cooper [4], Hugo Strikes Back[5], PonyXpress[6], and Trevor Brown[7]. My criterium for selecting these blogs was my willingness to click their new [...]
The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
In his essay "On Several Obsolete Notions," Alain Robbe-Grillet describes the novel in its "classic" phase: All the technical elements of the narrative--systematic use of the past tense and the third person, unconditional adoption of chronological development, linear plots, regular...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
The centerpiece of Artforum's new issue is a symposium: "With the passing of French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet this winter, the world of postmodern literature lost one of its first (and last) great innovatorsâone whose influence extended irrevocably into the...
The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Regardless of whether his own novels will stand up as important instances of "a new departure," Alain Robbe-Grillet thoroughly understood what it would take for the novel to survive as a credible art form: There is no question. . .of...
Grand Text Auto (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Adam Cadre writes about Alain Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy, using the book’s unusual style as a starting point for discussions of impressionism and description in interactive fiction. You'll definitely be interested if you've tried > COUNT LEAVES. In his calendar entry, he also states that Narcolepsey is his best-written game.
I'm in a Jess Franco State of Mind (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Francoise Brion (ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS; AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO) is L, the eternal feminine, the mystery woman, the angel of death in Alain Robbe-Grillet's first film as director. N (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) lost in the labyrinth of myth, geography, intrigue, memory and reality which is Istanbul. Valcroze, a journalist, co-founder of CAHIERS DU CINEMA in the early 1950s and later a film director, was...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
I don't quite agree with this post-mortem on Alain Robbe-Grillet. The "new novel" or "nouveau roman," as Robbe-Grillet defined and explained it in his famous 1963 essay, was high art at its unpalatably highest. It applied rules and regulations, opposed subjectivity and tried to dissolve plot and character into description. The approach was perceived, he admitted, as "difficult to read, addressed only...
The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
In his Salon essay regretting the supposedly baneful influence Alain Robbe-Grillet exerted on both writers and readers, Stephen Marche asserts that English fiction in the wake of Robbe-Grillet has become a deliberately old-fashioned activity, like archery or churning your own...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Possibly-self-hating-Canadian Stephen Marche, he of controversy well-courted, has a new essay out, this time skewering the late Alain Robbe-Grillet for “ruining” the experimental novel. Should be a good conversation starter for a few weeks. (You have to click on an add to read the whole thing, but it's worth it.) I should have felt grief at [...]
Do they hurt? (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Alain Robbe-Grillet | Obituaries | guardian.co.uk Books Hm. An obituary written by a dead man. Very strange. How many of these did Douglas Johnson file before he passed away, I wonder?
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
“.. I should have felt grief at the news of Alain Robbe-Grillet's death last week. Instead I recognized in myself only confusing relief. He was a great champion for the innovative novel, so in a way I owe him: I’m a novelist, and while I would be loath to call myself avant-garde, my first book [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback?
Gastronom.ie (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
A post by Julian at BUBBLE BROTHERS - CORK WINE MERCHANTS. I just wanted to put this up on the blog. Alain Robbe-Grillet died while I was at the first day of Vinisud, and the hotel TV in Montpellier didn't bother to tell me so on any of its several channels; in the end I found out from my free Figaro on the flight home. Continue reading this post »
The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
Beginning today, I'll be teaching the late Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers (Les Gommes) to a group of freshmen, many of whom are not English majors. Either the students will be intrigued, or they'll hire an exorcist.
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
Major avant-garde dude Robbe-Grillet, who died this week, leaving the living to puzzle over his novels. Ha!
