Le Translation Preview [Some July Translations]
Now that the World Cup of Literature is officially over, with Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile taking home the prize, it’s time to get back to writing normal blog posts, starting with this much overdue “preview” of forthcoming July translations. My initial plan with this post was to write it ...
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Stephen Marche on Alain Robbe-Grillet
From Salon: The “new novel” or “nouveau roman,” as Robbe-Grillet defined and explained it in his famous 1963 essay, was high art at its unpalatably highest. It applied rules and regulations, opposed subjectivity and tried to dissolve plot and character into description. The approach was perceived, ...
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Obituary: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet passed away yesterday at the age of 85. A major force in twentieth-century French literature, here’s part of the obit in “The Guardian“: He was the most prominent of France’s “new novelists,” a group that emerged in the mid-1950s and whose experimental works tossed ...
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Alain Robbe Grillet has died
Alain Robbe Grillet, father of the Nouveau Roman, has
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New Robbe-Grillet Novel Pornographic?
In his blog at The Guardian , Maxim Jakubowski writes about the new Alain Robbe-Grillet novel and the rising controversy about its pornographic contents: However, even in France, the recently published novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet—Un Roman Sentimental—is creating something of a stir, with calls from various ...
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