The test of the Nouveau Roman-Six hundred and fifty reading notes by Alain Robbe-Grillet (1955-1959).
La mise a L'épreuve du nouveau roman. 650 fiches de lecture d'Alain Robbe-Grillet (1955-1959)
Résumé
Alain Robbe-Grillet-writer, theoretician and "pope" of the Nouveau Roman-also served as the literary editor of the Éditions de Minuit. The singularity and interest of his position appears throughout the analysis of the six hundred and fifty reading notes he wrote between 1955 and 1959 which are kept in the Éditions de Minuit's archives. A collection of unpublished comments made by a famous writer on the rough literature of his time, these reading notes can also be read as the first draft of an avantgarde theoretical discourse. Robbe-Grillet, a recognized enemy of "humanism" (cf. Pour un Nouveau roman, Éditions de Minuit, 1963), also appears in these notes as an enemy of the "naturalism" inherited from the 19th century. But if the literary revolution takes place in the name of "anti-naturalism" in the French literary scene dominated by Sartre and the "littérature engagée" , "anti-humanism" is the only "culturally relevant distinction" , the one which will be pushed forward in order to ensure the success of the esthetic break. There is no "Robbe-Grillet mystery" (Georges Perec), but simply a writer with a scientific background who adapts his theoretical discourse to the state of reality he is confronted with and who successively examines the rough literature of his time as a literary editor and the French literary world as an avant-garde theoretician of the Nouveau Roman.
Domaines
Littératures
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