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Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Tue Oct 17 14:42:33 CDT 2006


	Yes, R-G's stated theoretical intentions (a French disease) are  
different from the actual 'effects' in his writing.  There's a  
certain type of cold poetry that he attains in his early work.  This  
got a bit hackneyed later on but at least the erotic esthetic persisted.


On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

> Robbe-Grillet's "In the Labyrinth" (1959) especially consists
> of such detailed geometrico-physical descriptions. At the time
> R-G considered himself an "objectivist", insisting that writers
> should only impersonally describe physical objects.
>

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