Alain Robbe-Grillet Book order (chronological)

Die Beziehung zwischen Alain Robbe-Grillet und Roland Barthes, die fast dreißig Jahre lang hielt, wird durch eine Korrespondenz beleuchtet, die 1953 begann. Robbe-Grillet, als Romancier, und Barthes, als Semiologe, schätzten jeweils die literarischen Qualitäten des anderen. Die erstmals veröffentlichten Stellungnahmen Robbe-Grillets verdeutlichen das Spannungsfeld zwischen Textgenuss und Fiktion, das die französische Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts prägte. Diese Reflexionen bieten einen tiefen Einblick in die literarischen Strömungen dieser Zeit.

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 48 photographs from the film.

Renowned avant-garde writer Alain Robbe-Grillet presents two extraordinary novels in this newly reissued collection, featuring striking covers by Peter Mendelsund. The works delve into innovative narrative techniques and explore complex themes, showcasing Robbe-Grillet's unique style and contribution to literature. This edition invites readers to experience the depth and creativity of his storytelling.

Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who, after the electoral victory of the Church party in the country's elections, decides to assassinate the King on the day he is to visit the factory where he is employed. As the crime is described and relived, doubt sets in as to whether it has ever taken place. Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges the gap between traditional novel and the nouveau roman genre he would later espouse and make famous

Rozprávka pre dospelých, fantasmagorická fikcia, nevhodná pre citlivejšie povahy. Hlavnými postavami sú otec a jeho pätnásťročná dcéra Gigi, odkázaní jeden na druhého po záhadnej smrti manželky a matky. V rámci domácej výchovy a vzdelávania otec svoju dcéru iniciuje do sveta silových mužsko-ženských vzťahov a náboženského i telesného utrpenia. Situácia sa však skomplikuje vo chvíli, keď Gigi objaví fotografie svojej matky v úlohe martýrky a neuvedomí si, že scény mučenia zrejme presiahli hranice divadelnej inscenácie...

Set in the haunting landscape of post-war Berlin, this atmospheric spy novel follows Henri Robin, a French secret service agent, as he navigates a city filled with violence and intrigue. Confronted by memories of a childhood visit, Robin's journey intertwines with themes of identity and loss, echoing elements of the Oedipus myth. The narrative unfolds through a series of intense encounters, including shootings and kidnappings, all rendered in rich, hallucinatory prose that enhances the mystery and depth of the story.

Alain Robbe-Grillet schafft in einem unterhaltsamen Vexierspiel mit exotischem Milieu, kriminalistischer Spannung und erotischer Atmosphäre ein Werk, das unsere Vorstellungen von Wirklichkeit und Wahrnehmung herausfordert.

"Corinthes letzte Tage" markiert den Abschluss von Alain Robbe-Grillets autobiographischem Zyklus. Diese besondere "Autobiographie" hinterfragt die Konventionen des realistischen Schreibens und dekonstruiert die Illusion eines rationalen, einheitlichen Ichs, indem sie ein multiples, "schizophrenes" Ich präsentiert.

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 in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent his most accessible fiction.

This is a work by the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from the original French.

A provocative novel by the most influential living French writer, Recollections of the Golden Triangle is a tour de force: a literary thriller constructed of wildly diverse elements—fantasy and dream, erotic invention, and the stuff of popular fiction and movies taken to its farthest limits.A secret door that is opened slightly by an electronic device, a beautiful hanged factory girl, a pale young aristocrat whose blood apparently nourishes his vampiric lover, the evil Dr. Morgan who conducts his experiments in “tertiary dream behavior,” the beautiful and sinister women from the world of horror films, and the investigating police, who are not all what they seem to be, are just some of the ingredients of this intriguing new novel by the French master of the intellectual thriller, whose novels and films have effectively changed the way we can look at the “real” world today.Recollections of the Golden Triangle challenges the reader to find his own meaning in its descriptions, clues, and contradictions, and to play detective by assembling the pieces of the fictional puzzle.

Evocative and erotic photographs capture the anticipations, reflections, discoveries, moods, and forms of adolescent female sensuality

Le narrateur de ce récit, un mari qui surveille sa femme, est au centre de l'intrigue. Il reste d'ailleurs en scène de la première phrase à la dernière, quelquefois légèrement à l'écart d'un côté ou de l'autre, mais toujours au premier plan. Souvent même il s'y trouve seul. Ce personnage n'a pas de nom, pas de visage. Il est un vide au coeur du monde, un creux au milieu des objets. Mais, comme toute ligne part de lui ou s'y termine, ce creux finit par être lui-même aussi concret, aussi solide, sinon plus. L'autre point de résistance, c'est la femme du narrateur, A..., celle dont les yeux font se détourner le regard. Elle constitue l'autre pôle de l'aimant. La jalousie est une sorte de contrevent qui permet de regarder au dehors et, pour certaines inclinaisons, du dehors vers l'intérieur ; mais, lorsque les lames sont closes, on ne voit plus rien, dans aucun sens. La jalousie est une passion pour qui rien jamais ne s'efface : chaque vision, même la plus innocente, y demeure inscrite une fois pour toutes.

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 tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.

Závažný teoretický výboj představitele francouzského „nového románu“ směřuje k vytyčení netradiční románové struktury, která je průzkumem, v němž není nic známo předem, kde neexistuje předběžný hotový výraz. Eseje pocházejí zlet 1955 až 1963 a spočívají v úvahách na obecné úrovni i v konkrétním pohledu na vybrané spisovatele (mj. i S. Becketta a R. Pingeta). P. Pujman v doslovu výstižně resumuje, jak u Robbe-Grilleta „z noetiky roste poetika“ a zároveň kritizuje pojetí, které odmítá spatřovat ve významu neoddělitelnou součást člověkova kontaktu s předměty.

Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is then turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion.

"Dans l'œuvre de Robbe-Grillet, la parution de "La maison de rendez-vous" marque sans doute un nouveau tournant, c'est-à-dire que ce livre non seulement permet de définir de nouveaux critères de lecture, mais incite encore à relire tous les premiers romans a la lumière de ces citerez là, donc a remettre en question encore une fois tout ce qui avait été dit sur eux, et peut-être meme a voir dans cette remise en question permanente à quoi l'auteur nous oblige, un des sens possibles de son œuvre, un de ses plus subtils enseignements." - Franklin J.Matthews

Jealousy: "In a tropical jungle overlooking a banana plantation, a jealous husband is obsessed by his suspicion of adultery between his wife and his neighbor. Robbe-Grillet's handling of the devastating effect on the tormented husband and his subsequent violence gives us one of the most disturbing treatment of jealousy in contemporary fiction."--Publisher description

Francouzský název díla má dvojí význam: žárlivost a žaluzie. Vypravěč popisuje opakující se situace tří bělošských majitelů banánových plantáží. Nejmenovaný pozorovatel, manžel ženy zvané A, sleduje setkávání ženy se sousedem Franckem. Nikde není ani zmínka o jejich milostném vztahu, ale je naznačen mnoha detaily. Není zde děj s časovou následností – často časové přeskoky a návraty, rekapitulace. Detailně popisuje opakující se situace. Vše je pozorováno jakoby skrz žaluzie a navzdory objektivnímu popisu událostí naznačuje subjektivní pocit žárlivosti.

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 tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably accumulate. Through the warped screen of his distorted mind, the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation. And yet in the end reality has lost all meaning, as the distinction between the narrator's recollections and the underlying facts are more and more blurred. This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.