The new novel and phenomenology: ambiguity in robbe-grillet
Silverman, Hugh J.
Graduate Student
Modern Languages and Literature
Melchert, Norman P.
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1967-09-01
1967
Lehigh University
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When one reads the theory of Alain Robbe-Grillet, particularly that expounded in Pour un Nouveau Roman, one becomes aware that the descriptions of man in the world are phenomenological. A similar discovery comes when one reads his novels, which he has called the New Novel. I have used as examples Le Voyeur, La Jalousie, and Dans le Labyrinthe. The phenomenology that becomes evident in the theory and the novels of Robbe-Grillet is that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.