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Alain Robbe-Grillet quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: August 18, 1922 - February 18, 2008

Birthday: August 18

Death: February 18

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The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

Topics: Writing, Way

quote memory belongs to the imagination human memory is not like a computer which records alain robbe grillet Quotes

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Topics: Meaningful, World, Absurd

Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me"  mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis des anne  es, a'   votre rencontre. And one more time, I advanced along these same hallways, walking for days, for months, for years, to meet you.

source: - 1961 L'Anne e dernie're a' Marienbad.

Topics: Years, Long, Months

Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

source: - 1959 Dans le labyrinthe.

Topics: Character, Views, Labyrinth

Deux me'  tresou un peu plusse  parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

Topics: Men, Two, Parent

On n'e  chappe pas a'   son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

Topics: Son, Destiny

The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.

source: - Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.17, Northwestern University Press

Topics: Change, Art, Simple

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

Topics: Girl, Dream, Blood

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Topics: Memories, Imagination

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.

source: - Alain Robbe-Grillet (2015). “La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Topics: Girl, Boys, Practice, Like A Boy

Premie'  re approximation: j'e  cris pour de  truire, en les de  crivant avec pre  cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e  veille  e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

Topics: Writing, Monsters, Waking Life

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

source: - Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard (1989). “For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

Topics: Zebras, Cartoon, Hippopotamus

Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

source: - 1984 LeMiroir qui revient.

Topics: Writing, Monsters, Waking Life

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

Topics: Son, Destiny

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

Topics: Men, Two, Parent

Premie'  re approximation: j'e  cris pour de  truire, en les de  crivant avec pre  cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e  veille  e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.

source: - 1984 LeMiroir qui revient.

Topics: Waking Life, Nocturnal

Deux me'  tresou un peu plusse  parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

Topics: Femme

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