Robbe-Grillet and Modernity: Science, Sexuality, and Subversion (University of Florida Monographs Humanities)

By Raylene L. Ramsay

Featuring two first-person interviews with the major contemporary French man of letters, this work investigates the relationships between Alain Robbe-Grillet's experimental writing (novels, picto-novels, auto-fictions, films, and essays) and developments in a number of fields of contemporary inquiry - new sciences (quantum mechanics, chaos theory, and contemporary biology, among others), poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Bringing together the ghosts in the apparently contradictory pair of science and sexuality, Ramsay suggests a connection between concepts of the world as complementary and chaotic and the sado-erotic character of Robbe-Grillet's work. At this intersection, she argues, the analogy sheds light on both the obsessive nature of Robbe-Grillet's metaphors and on the troubling presence of sexual violence in postmodern texts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813011450
• ISBN13: 9780813011455
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.