President Nicolas Sarkozy's office described Robbe-Grillet as "equally at ease in the expression of his most intimate fantasies as in the lucid and dispassionate analysis of concepts." "The Academie Francaise today loses one of its most illustrious members, and without a doubt its most rebellious," his office said in a statement.Au revoir, Alain.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
"New Novelist" Gets Old & Dies
Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist & filmmaker, expired Monday, aged 85. Per the AP, in the '50s he & some other Frogs "tossed aside traditional literary conventions like plot and character development, narrative and chronology, chapters and punctuation." Good for him. You certainly won't see any of that bourgeois crap here at Just Another Blog™.
Another thing you won't see is the Bush Administrsation giving a shit. Did they release a statement when, say, Norman Mailer died? Nope. The French president's office (A talking office? WTF?) had something to say about Robbe-Grillet:
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He was also a screenwriter, and his novels were very much like screenwriting. I have one of his novels around here somewhere, but I am going nuts trying to find books these days due to an excess of unorganized books (they're on the shelf based on size, i.e., where they'll fit- some system!)
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