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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Birth date: August 18, 1928
Died: February 18, 2008
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: winter20092010, published-1964, france, mystery-thriller, books-with-a-passport Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Moxysox Recommended for: Post onto Clare Read in December, 2009 In the dimness of the café, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda ...
Wounded Child Prostitute
Wounded Child Prostitute rated it 12 years ago
Like walking inside myself. Where I live, or even like a dream I often have where I am lost in the city, I can't find the right bus route, and the very air around me is golden. One comparison that comes to mind is being Diddy in Sontag's 'Death Kit'. But never mind, you either go or you don't. What ...
JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it 12 years ago
"Then there is the electric bulb swaying at the end of the long wire and the man's shadow swaying across the closed door like a slow metronome."The man walks out of the house, shutting and locking the door behind him. He steps down the three stairs to the sidewalk, first his right foot, then his lef...
JeffreyKeeten
JeffreyKeeten rated it 12 years ago
"The shadow of the column, though it is already very long, would have to be nearly a yard longer to reach the little round spot on the flagstones. From the latter runs a thin vertical thread which increases in size as it rises from the concrete substructure. It then climbs up the wooden surface, fro...
AC
AC rated it 13 years ago
I read 'Jealousy', not 'in The Labyrinth'. The book is strangely moving. I had not expected to like (or even understand) Robbe-Grillet - but, in fact, I liked this quite a bit -- though long..., endless discussions of horizontal wall moldings, though I see the point..., is somewhat pointless. Much ...
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