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Cargando... O Ciúme (1957)por Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. though robbe-grillet is a thomas bernhard of greater repute, it is unclear whether the (factitious) technique of writing the visual fact is beneficial, or even necessary best images: disappearance of the tar spot into the refractive defect of the window. counting the banana trees. worst image: the (false) centipede An early edition of La jalousie, 7e mille, printed on December 10th 1959. I read the novel some time in the early 1970s and found its detailed descriptions seen through the eyes of the narrator as very abstract and analytical. This time round I found it strange for other reasons. I had been listening to Proust’s Remembrance of things past on multiple CDs in the car. Jealousy is examined so clearly there through the relationships of Swann and Odette and the narrator and Albertine. Hundreds of pages are devoted to the experience of jealousy through actions and dialogue. The theme of jealousy in La jalousie (and the use of the word 'jalousie' meaning a slatted window to stop intrusive peeping) is seen through the eyes of another narrator who never speaks but just observes the objects of his jealousy. To make matters more interesting I realise that I am reading the book through the eyes of a previous reader. One Lilian Rowlinson has written her name in ink in the top right hand corner of the front free endpaper and has dated it 1961. Not only that, Lilian through her pencilled annotations within the text has helped me understand some of the difficult words, for instance: mediane, page 9 strie, page 11 de plain-pied, page12 en quinconce, page 13 casier, page 14 cloison, page 15 sous-main, page 15 cruche, page 21 amovible, page 21 anse, page 22 maculant, page 24 carnassier, page 27 vrombissement, page 27 scarabee, page 27 I can picture Lilian in 1961 sitting at a desk thumbing through a French-English dictionary. I wonder why she stopped annotating the text on page 27 only to pick it up again with the word ‘enduit’ on page 129. Did she run out of patience with the novel, struggling as I did, with the nouveau roman style? Did she skip to the summary in the back cover where she checked out the meaning of ‘aimant’ and ‘limaille’? Was she asked by someone, a teacher perhaps, to concentrate on pages 129-133 and 151-162, the only other pages subject to pencilled translations? Although this is a book about nothing, it still EFFICIENTLY accomplishes what it sets out to do. It's an outline of a novel that makes its empty spaces made known. It leaves you with that charming little empty feeling that absurdity gives you. A good antidote from the formulaic novels. And guess what - it came from the 1950s! It definitely deserves to be read at least twice to fully appreciate how many times it tries to derail you from any actual plot. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principal preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other characters' actions as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind.The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)843.914Literature French French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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