In The Labyrinth - Couverture souple

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714502987 ISBN 13 : 9780714502984

Editeur : Calder Publications Ltd, 1970

Synopsis

The Battle of Reichenfels has been fought and lost. The army is in flight. The enemy is expected to arrive in town at any moment. Wandering through the snow laden devastated streets of what once was a city, a soldier on the losing side has a parcel to deliver. All the streets look the same, and he cannot remember the name of the street where he was to meet the man who had agreed to take the parcel. But he must deliver the parcel or at least get rid of it...Alain Robbe-Grillet says in his prefatory note: 'this story is fiction, not a report. It describes a reality which is not necessarily that of the reader's own experience...And yet the reality here in question is srictly physical, that is to say it has no allegorical significance. The reader should therefore see in it only objects, the gestures, the words and the events that are told, without seeking to give them either more or less meaning than they would have in his own life, or in his death.' The masterful translation is by Christine Brooke-Rose.

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À propos de l?auteur

The best known of post-war French novelists, Robbe-Grillet (1922- ) is the central figure in what has become known as the nouveau roman or new novel, where the reality of what goes on in the mind is more important than objective reality, if such a thing exists. As we all have different minds, we all perceive reality heterogeneously. Robbe-Grillet has also made successful films such as Last Year in Marienbad (1961).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Calder Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714502987
• ISBN 13: 9780714502984
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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• Personne responsable: non disponible