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…

Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself–or a foreigner’s nightmare of New York–as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and…

One of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic. Includes and introduction by Tom McCarthy

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…