An edition of La belle captive (1975)

Die schöne Gefangene

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An edition of La belle captive (1975)

Die schöne Gefangene

Deutsche Erstausgabe, [1. Auflage]
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Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Belle Captive was published in 1975 and illustrated with 77 paintings by Rene Magritte. Robbe-Grillet has not chosen Magritte's paintings to mirror his text. Rather, he uses them as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Robbe-Grillet simultaneously comments on Magritte's paintings while taking advantage of them to parade his own favorite themes: play, eroticism, subversion.

Magritte's rejection of illusionistic perspective and his transgressions of the normal boundaries between animal, mineral, and vegetable worlds, - rocks float like clouds, birds grow like leaves - is analogous to Robbe-Grillet's rejection of the conventions of fiction. In place of storyline, plot, and flesh-and-blood characters, Robbe-Grillet gives us a fragmented discourse, a plot that frustrates expectations, and a proliferation of characters whose identities remain problematic.

The technique emphasizes the story of telling rather than the telling of a story. As readers of La Belle Captive we are invited to join in an inventive new game, unifying the separate entities, making the pictures speak and the text see. We share Robbe-Grillet's pleasure in the mysterious, poetic, and ludic in Magritte's art, and play with the cultural myths that painter and novelist both parody.

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German
Pages
156

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Cover of: La belle captive
La belle captive: a novel
1995, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: LA Belle Captive
LA Belle Captive
October 9, 1985, French & European Pubns
Paperback in English - French edition
Cover of: Die schöne Gefangene
Die schöne Gefangene
1984-04, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch in German - Deutsche Erstausgabe, [1. Auflage]
Cover of: La belle captive
La belle captive
1975, La Bibliotheque des Arts
in French
Cover of: La belle captive
La belle captive: roman
1975, La Bibliothèque des arts
in French

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Copyright Date
1975; 1984
Translation Of
La belle captive
Translated From
French

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Taschenbuch
Number of pages
156

Edition Identifiers

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OL51160287M
ISBN 10
3423028882

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OL1417677W

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