La Belle Captive: A Novel
by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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"It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface." The opening sentence of La Belle Captive introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events. Published in 1975, Alain show more Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman is illustrated with 77 paintings by Ren#65533; Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Simultaneously, he comments on Magritte's paintings while taking advantage of them to parade his own favorite themes: play, eroticism, subversion. Robbe-Grillet gives us a plot that frustrates expectations yet shares his pleasure with the mysterious and poetic in Magritte's art, and with the cultural myths that painter and novelist both parody. The book includes a critical essay by novelist and translator Ben Stoltzfus on the pictorial and linguistic affinities between Magritte and Robbe-Grillet. Stoltzfus explores the image of the beautiful captive not only in her mythical and erotic dimensions, but also as a metaphor for the artistic process. show lessTags
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Некто Вальтер знакомится в баре с незнакомкой, которая, оказывается, была убита 6 лет назад на вилле своего жениха — графа Коринфского. Тут же Вальтера отправляют к самому графу передать конверт, и новые мистические приключения ему обеспечены…
В ролях: Ариэль Домбасль,Даниэль Мезгиш, Сирэль Клер, Даниэль Эмильфорк, Франсуа Шоме, Габриэль Лазюр и др.
В ролях: Ариэль Домбасль,Даниэль Мезгиш, Сирэль Клер, Даниэль Эмильфорк, Франсуа Шоме, Габриэль Лазюр и др.
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest, France in 1922. Robbe-Grillet's first novel, The Erasers (1953) is considered to be one of the first books of the nouveau roman, or new novel, in which external reality is more important than character or plot. His other works included The Voyeur (1955), Jealousy (1957) and Djinn (1981). show more He worked in the film industry as a writer, actor and director. He died at the age of 85 on February 18, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- La Belle captive
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- 1975
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