Alain Robbe-Grillet with Emmanuelle Lambert
A young woman arrives in Paris and discovers an intellectual milieu, a male-dominated world: the pope of the Nouveau Roman, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and his wife Catherine, who champion a radical freedom from sexuality and literature. Lambert had already written the afterword to Catherine's book. Alain She wrote a story about her collaboration with Robbe-Grillet, published in 2009 a year after his death. My great writerRaphaëlle Leyris interprets in Le Monde This new book, after 15 years, shows that Lambert no longer hides; it becomes a coming-of-age novel from a female perspective, for example in the chapter "Heroines." Claire Devarrieux in Libération Lambert praises the balance between comedy and affection, empathy and detachment. He dares to contradict Robbe-Grillet's latest book, which celebrates pedophilia and incest: fantasy is no excuse. Lambert concedes in Nouvel Observateur But also: "There is always a gap between the memory of a writer and the reality of his books." The author tells, among other things, of the "rock star of the avant-garde's" awareness of possession, hierarchy and power, of the structures of the staff at the institute and the subtle academic differences, of Robbe-Grillet's inappropriate sexual questions during their first meeting in the Norman castle; the 36 chapters end with an ambivalent celebration.
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