Last Year at Marienbad: A Cinematic Novel - Couverture souple

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714550507 ISBN 13 : 9780714550503

Editeur : Calder Publications Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman’s mind, the reader is shunted backwards and forwards between the past and the present, the actual and the illusory, that which is seen and that which is only glimpsed and guessed at.

The director Alain Resnais was already famous for films such as Hiroshima, Mon Amour when he asked Alain Robbe-Grillet – the author of several seminal novels, including Jealousy and The Voyeur, and the leader of the Nouveau Roman school – to write a script for him. The result was Last Year at Marienbad, a film that, as well as winning the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, has enthralled the critics, fascinated the public and become one of the greatest cult classics of modern cinema.

CONTAINS AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET AND 48 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS.

Also available by the same author: A Regicide, In the Labyrinth, Jealousy, The Erasers and The Voyeur.

Calder Publications was founded by John Calder in 1949. It's a historical list championing some of the great avant-garde writers of the 20th century and introducing some of the best writing from Europe. Now and imprint of Alma Classics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Calder Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714550507
• ISBN 13: 9780714550503
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible