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Article: A la lettre: Entretiens.(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Alain Robbe-Grillet considers Robert Pinget one of the most gifted and original contemporary French authors. He had long been known as a New Novelist when, in 1987, three of his works--L'inquisitoire, L'hypothese, and Monsieur Songe--were presented at the Festival d'Avignon and made him known as an innovative author for the theater. Still, he remains out of the public eye and primarily interested in finding out what he is, deep inside, in his inner self, "son trefonds." He desperately searches for an answer he cannot find. His works show how hard he tries (see WLT 64:1, pp. 42-43). They are his life. Writing is his life.
The reader of Pinget's work has hitherto been ...