Jealousy & In the Labyrinth

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Overview

Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called “new novel” which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy.

This volume, which offers incisive essays on Robbe-Grillet by Professor Bruce Morrissette of the University of Chicago and by French critics Roland Barthes and Anne Minor, also contains a helpful bibliography of writings by and about the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802128751
Publisher:	Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/2018
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the nouveau roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Claude Simon. He is the author of The Erasers, The Voyeur, Jealousy, In the Labyrinth, Recollections of the Golden Triangle, and La Maison de Rendez-Vous.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet:

“Robbe-Grillet’s theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism.”—John Updike

“Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space”—Roland Barthes

“Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time.”—Claude Mauriac

“Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding.”—Bernard-Henri Lévy

“I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.”—New York Times

“Jealousy . . . is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived.”—New York Times Book Review

“In the Labyrinth is better than an excellent novel: it is a great work of literature.”—Maurice Nadeau, France-Observateur

“A highly emotional experience for the reader . . . Robbe-Grillet will take his place in world literature as a successor of Balzac and Proust.”—Parade of Books, on In the Labyrinth

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