Tag: French literature
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For a New Novel: Reading Robbe-Grillet by Fred Skolnik
Via Sein und Werden, here’s a good article by Fred Skolnik called Reading Robbe-Grillet. It begins: Alain Robbe-Grillet came to the attention of fiction readers in the 1950s with a series of extraordinary novels whose declared aim was to take the modern break with the traditional narrative a step further and help create a…
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Typewriters and Sports Cars: Michael Norris on Francoise Sagan
Random Walk blogger Michael Norris writes, “Despite all the partying, despite her chaotic life, Francois Sagan was surprisingly productive. She published over twenty novels and twelve pieces for theatre as well as novellas, memoirs, biographies and even scenarios for cinema. In the film we see her sitting on her bed in front of her typewriter, cigarette…