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The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
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To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.
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From the chest of drawers to the table is six steps; three to the fireplace and three more after that. It is five steps from the table to the corner of the bed; four steps from the bed to the chest of drawers. The path from the chest of drawers to the table is not quite straight: it curves gently to pass nearer the fireplace.
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There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism.
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The world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.
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The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Born:
August 18, 1922
Died:
February 18, 2008
(aged 85)
Bio:
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend.
Known for:
La Jalousie (1957)
Pour un nouveau roman (1963)
Djinn (1981)
The voyeur (1958)
La Maison de rendez-vous (1953)
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