Ghosts in the Mirror: A Romanesque (First Edition)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

ISBN 10: 0802110363 / ISBN 13: 9780802110367

Published by Grove Wiedenfeld, New York, 1991

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New York, Grove, 1991. First American edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($17.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Novel. Translated from the French by Jo Levy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghosts in the Mirror: A Romanesque (First Edition)
• Publisher: Grove Wiedenfeld, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802110363
• ISBN 13: 9780802110367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature

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Synopsis

The French novelist offers evocative memories of his childhood and his family and discusses his own writings as well as the writings of others who have influenced him

Reviews

Rejecting the usual approach in autobiographical writing ofpresenting a life as "a quasi-historical narrative . . . arranged in acausal sequence," Robbe-Grillet ( Last Year at Marienbad ) insteadviews this first volume of memoirs as a process of "continualquestioning" by a "resolute, ill-equipped, imprudent explorer." In thevolume at hand, the process concerns the literary, psychological andpersonal. Among Robbe-Grillet's literary preoccupations are theinfluence of Camus's The Stranger on himself and a generation ofwriters, and his own role as an "objective novelist"; among thepsychological, his sexual preference for young girls; among thepersonal, his wife and their marriage of four decades ("Catherine isstill my little girl"). And, like all who lived through it,Robbe-Grillet was marked forever by WW II: after the Liberation, his"personal relations with order underwent a profound change" as helearned of "the whole dark horror that was the hidden face of NationalSocialism." Alternately analytical, emotional, distant and arch, thebook is true to Robbe-Grillet's view of reality: "discontinuous. . . juxtaposed . . . and . . . difficult to grasp."
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