Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial nouveau roman. This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet…

* This is a unique testimony to one of the most important literary friendships of our time. Robbe-Grillet, the master of the nouveau roman, considered Barthes, France’s greatest postwar literary…

Several of Robbe-Grillet’s novels and films are analyzed according to recurrent themes and patterns evident in his works. A critical case must be made for the author as artist, primarily…

When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly…

Unique edition of the film script of Last Year at Marienbad, one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet and photographs…

Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Die Theorie des literarischen Feldes des Kultursoziologen Pierre Bourdieu bildet fur diese Arbeit den wichtigsten Teil seiner thematisch vielfaltigen, an der gesellschaftlichen Praxis orientierten soziologischen Studien. Die Feldtheorie…