Jealousy & in the Labyrinth

Newly reissued with eye-catching covers by Peter Mendelsund, two remarkable novels by legendary avant-garde writer Alain Robbe-Grillet

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.

Summary

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

• Authors: Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2018
• EAN: 9780802128751
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-2875-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, Fiction: general & literary, c 1960 to c 1969, CULTURAL HERITAGE / French, Relating to specific and significant cultural interests, new novel;classic