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- catalog abstract ""In this introduction to the French writer, Roch C. Smith suggests that despite the initial shock often felt on a first encounter with Robbe-Grillet, reading his work can be great fun for someone willing to tolerate defamiliarization and ambiguity and to become an interactive traveler through his narrative mazes. With this exploration of Robbe-Grillet's novels, short stories, and autobiographies, Smith offers a guide for the adventuresome reader to the writer's labyrinthine and playful world." "Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality. In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11981422.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this introduction to the French writer, Roch C. Smith suggests that despite the initial shock often felt on a first encounter with Robbe-Grillet, reading his work can be great fun for someone willing to tolerate defamiliarization and ambiguity and to become an interactive traveler through his narrative mazes. With this exploration of Robbe-Grillet's novels, short stories, and autobiographies, Smith offers a guide for the adventuresome reader to the writer's labyrinthine and playful world."".
- catalog description ""Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Early Narratives -- Ch. 3. The Erasers -- Ch. 4. The Voyeur -- Ch. 5. Jealousy -- Ch. 6. In the Labyrinth -- Ch. 7. La Maison de rendez-vous -- Ch. 8. Project for a Revolution in New York -- Ch. 9. Topology of a Phantom City -- Ch. 10. Recollections of the Golden Triangle -- Ch. 11. Djinn -- Ch. 12. An Autofictional Trilogy: The Romanesques -- Ch. 13. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 193 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "157003351X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding modern European and Latin American literature".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog subject "843/.914 21".
- catalog subject "PQ2635.O117 Z7975 2000".
- catalog subject "Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Early Narratives -- Ch. 3. The Erasers -- Ch. 4. The Voyeur -- Ch. 5. Jealousy -- Ch. 6. In the Labyrinth -- Ch. 7. La Maison de rendez-vous -- Ch. 8. Project for a Revolution in New York -- Ch. 9. Topology of a Phantom City -- Ch. 10. Recollections of the Golden Triangle -- Ch. 11. Djinn -- Ch. 12. An Autofictional Trilogy: The Romanesques -- Ch. 13. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet / Roch C. Smith.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".