...Sidney D. Braun Robert Champigny. Paris: Minard, 1967. 110 pp. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 302 REVIEWS Pour une esthttique de I‘essai: Analyses critiques (Breton, Sartre, Robbe- Grillet). By ROBERTCHAMPICNY...

... Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. By JOHN STURROCK.London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969. 244 pp. $6.95. Apparently written as an afterthought, John Sturrock’s introduction is an unsuccessful attempt to relate three chapters composed independently, though...

...-GRILLET’S VOYEUR By SEYMOURS. WEINER* The French novel has recently witnessed the promulgation of dicta and practices which for some sound the knell of that perennially dying form, and which for others indicates that the modern novel is investi- gating exciting new...

...-Grillet, Gabriel García Márquez, and others were often quoted by critics and writers alike in support of their own writings. Yu Hua published a col- lection, Warm Journey—Ten Short Stories That Influenced Me the Most, in which the only Chinese work is Lu Xun’s “Kong Yiji,” a bitter satire...

... Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes and Samuel Beckett’s L’Znnommable were published. Since that time, they and other proteges of the French publisher Les Editions de Minuit-Michel Butor, Robert Pin- get, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon-have been hailed and as- sailed on both sides...

... to Sartrean protagonists. EDITHKERN University of Washington The French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. By JOHN STURROCK.London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969. 244 pp. $6.95...

.... Some postmodernist texts are characterized by minimalism, a “literature of silence” (Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras); other texts feature redundancy in the form of ever expanding fabulation (John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Gabriel García Márquez, later also Umberto Eco...

... touch- ing a wide variety of subjects. The “nouveau roman” shows a close resemblance to Ponge’s poems, and the synthesis of words and images in Robbe-Grillet’s “cint-roman” reveals once again current interest in the poet of the object and his creative method. Faced with an absurd world...

... is always a creative, generative act in the New Novel and in New Wave cinema: In Hiroshima mon amour repressed memory is triggered by a liaison in the present; in Alain Robbe-Grillet and Alain Resnais’s Llnnbe hni6r-e u Marienbad the viewer is left to recompose the scattered signifiers of rape...

... and smaller, the novelist turns in upon himself, ideas tend to substitute themselves for people, plot turns to allegory. The reasons for the recent reorientation of fiction-as exemplified by the work of Butor and Robbe-Grillet-already in- here in the work of Malraux, Sartre, and Camus...

... like one of the classics, pondered over by professors of philosophy. Robbe-Grillet, at forty-two, has already been studied in two volumes by Americans (by Ben Stoltzfus and Bruce Morrissette) and in some sixty articles. Encouraged by his admirers who read philosophical profundities in his...

... that Butor (on whom he writes well) goes about naming people according to the same elementary code we are asked to notice in Robbe-Grillet’s writings. Meanwhile, a sentence from Sturrock’s essay on the latter illustrates how cleverness sometimes invalidates insight. Referring to the cyclical...

.... The French New Novel: Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969. 244 pp. $6.95. Wilkins, Nigel (editor). One Hundred Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais from the Late Middle Ages. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. vii + 212...

... in Robbe-Grillet’s Projet pour une revolution iL New York”; Donald B. Rice, “The Exploration of Space in Butor’s 06”;Tom Conley, “The Sunset of Myth: LCvi-Strauss in the Americas”; Erika Ostrovsky, “A Cosmog- ony of 0: Wittig’s Les GuCrillbres”; Margaret Eberbach, “Roland Barthes’s...

.... 178 pp. $4.95. Champigny, Robert. Pour une esthttique de I‘essai: Analyses critiques (Breton, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet). Paris: Minard, Letues Modernes, “Situation,” No. 15, 1967. 110 pp. Grant, Richard B. The Perilous Quest: Image, Myth, and Prophecy in the Narra- tives of Victor...

.... Introduction to the Psychoanalysis of MallarmC. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, Perspectives in Criticism, No. 10, 1963. Pp. 280. $5.75. Morrissette, Bruce. Les Romans de Robbe-Grillet. Paris : Les editions de Minuit, Arguments, No. 13, 1963. Pp. 221. 15 NF...

...). Franqois Rabelais: Le Tiers Livre. Genhe: Librairie Droz, Textes 1ittCraires frangais, 1964. Pp. xxix 4- 467. Stoltzfus, Ben F. Alain Robbe-Grillet and the New French Novel. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Crosscurrents/ Modern Critiques, 1964. Pp. xvii 4- 166. $4.50...

... pp. $20.00. Mitchell, Robert L. Tristan Corbibre. Boston: G. K. Hall, Twayne’s World Authors Series, 1979. 161 pp. $11.95. Morrissette, Bruce. Intertextual Assemblage in Robbe-Grillet from Topology to the Golden Triangle. Fredericton, N.B., Canada: York Press, 1979. 84 pp. $17.95...

... to allegory. The reasons for the recent reorientation of fiction-as exemplified by the work of Butor and Robbe-Grillet-already in- here in the work of Malraux, Sartre, and Camus. And at the same time, stu- dents of American culture will find much food for thought in the discussion...

... debate. The Jameson The Realism- Modernism Debate 477 postwar polemics against realism — whether those of the nouvelle vague against Hollywood, or those of such very different repudiations of tra- ditional bourgeois realism as Brecht and Robbe- Grillet — saw it as the enemy...