The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
12:18:51, 02-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > News And Current Affairs > Obituary Pages > Alain Robbe-Grillet has died
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Alain Robbe-Grillet has died  (Read 111 times)
Andy D
*****
Posts: 3061
« on: 00:50:23, 21-02-2008 »
I found him to be a very inspirational writer, so much so that I found myself writing things which were just pastiches of his style. Jealousy was - and is - my favourite, it's a marvellous book. The Voyeur ran it a close second.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7251553.stm

I enjoyed the subsequent books: The House of Assignation, Project for a Revolution in New York, Topology of a Phantom City and Recollections of the Golden Triangle; but they never quite lived up to the earlier ones.
« Last Edit: 01:02:09, 21-02-2008 by Andy D » Logged
Robert Dahm
***
Posts: 197
« Reply #1 on: 02:56:27, 21-02-2008 »
I have just embarked on Robbe-Grillet (I'm about halfway through Dans le Labyrinth - the edition I have also includes La Jalosie so I'll move straight onto that next). One of the things I admire in his writing is the manner in which the (often apparently naïve) techniques he employs (constant use of repetition, inversion and textual allusion in Labyrinth, wilful erasure of the narrator through the absence of personal pronouns in Jealousy) are so integral to the text as an organism that they never seem 'tacked on' (as in, say, George Perec's infamous 'e' book...).

The loss of a writer of such generosity of spirit and incisiveness of mind is a loss indeed.
Logged
matticus
*
Posts: 34


Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
« Reply #2 on: 13:26:06, 21-02-2008 »
Quote from: Robert Dahm on 02:56:27, 21-02-2008
they never seem 'tacked on' (as in, say, George Perec's infamous 'e' book...).

The lipogram in La Disparition/A Void isn't tacked on, it's integral to the theme of being unable to talk about something's absence (Perec can't use the words je, mère, père, or his own name, for example).

I was sad and surprised to hear of Robbe-Grillet's death too, Jealousy is one of my favourite books.
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: