0
    Recollections of the Golden Triangle

    Recollections of the Golden Triangle

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet, J.A. Underwood (Translator)


    eBook

    $10.49
    $10.49
     $10.99 | Save 5%

    Customer Reviews

      ISBN-13: 9780802190543
    • Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
    • Publication date: 06/23/2015
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 160
    • Sales rank: 162,172
    • File size: 522 KB

    Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the Noveau Roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. He is the author of The Erasers , The Voyeur , Jealousy , In the Labyrinth , Recollections of the Golden Triangle , and La Maison de Rendez-vous.

    Available on NOOK devices and apps

    • NOOK eReaders
    • NOOK GlowLight 4 Plus
    • NOOK GlowLight 4e
    • NOOK GlowLight 4
    • NOOK GlowLight Plus 7.8"
    • NOOK GlowLight 3
    • NOOK GlowLight Plus 6"
    • NOOK Tablets
    • NOOK 9" Lenovo Tablet (Arctic Grey and Frost Blue)
    • NOOK 10" HD Lenovo Tablet
    • NOOK Tablet 7" & 10.1"
    • NOOK by Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 [Tab A and Tab 4]
    • NOOK by Samsung [Tab 4 10.1, S2 & E]
    • Free NOOK Reading Apps
    • NOOK for iOS
    • NOOK for Android

    Want a NOOK? Explore Now

    A provocative novel by the most influential living French writer, Recollections of the Golden Triangle is a tour de force: a literary thriller constructed of wildly diverse elements—fantasy and dream, erotic invention, and the stuff of popular fiction and movies taken to its farthest limits.

    A secret door that is opened slightly by an electronic device, a beautiful hanged factory girl, a pale young aristocrat whose blood apparently nourishes his vampiric lover, the evil Dr. Morgan who conducts his experiments in “tertiary dream behavior,” the beautiful and sinister women from the world of horror films, and the investigating police, who are not all what they seem to be, are just some of the ingredients of this intriguing new novel by the French master of the intellectual thriller, whose novels and films have effectively changed the way we can look at the “real” world today.

    Recollections of the Golden Triangle challenges the reader to find his own meaning in its descriptions, clues, and contradictions, and to play detective by assembling the pieces of the fictional puzzle.

    Read More

    Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

    Recently Viewed 

    Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
    Misogyny, paranoia, hallucination and vampirism permeate this loathsome and obscure literary thriller. The Golden Triangle of the title refers to a bizarre sex cult that requires a steady supply of adolescent girls for sacrifice. The sordid tale is narrated by a kidnapper who passes himself off as a mad doctor who revels in slicing off the clothes of his prey (``I slit the golden dress axially with a single stroke of the scalpel''). He muses, ``No sooner have I opened the paper at the sex-crimes page than I feel a flush come to my cheeks,'' and offers recurring images of ``golden pubic fleece,'' ``the black triangle of fleece,'' ``the incipient fleece'' and the ``Titian-red pubis.'' And there's also a disturbed chief of police who derives ``great refreshment from sleeping in the warmth of a victim already destined for the executioners' instruments.'' Unsuspecting readers should be forewarned. The author, a pioneer of ``nouveau roman,'' or new novel, wrote Jealously, etc.(October)
    Library Journal
    If Robbe-Grillet's memoirs revealing his Petainist and anti-Semitic rearing had not recently been published in France, this novel could be shrugged off as an exercise in pornography. But the cultivated obliviousness of his adolescence gives a disturbing context to this complicitous narration of tortured and mutilated young women in a Brazilian city. Unlike Robbe-Grillet's The Voyeur , which introduced English readers to the French New Novel in 1958, this 1978 novel has 14 fairly traditional chapters that advance the plot while dwelling on sexist brutality. The translation is tidy (some 1200 words fewer than the French), although initially there is some difficulty finding a comparable tone. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Comparative Literature Dept., SUNY at Binghamton
    From the Publisher
    Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet:

    “Robbe-Grillet’s theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism.” —John Updike

    “Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space” —Roland Barthes

    “Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time.” —Claude Mauriac

    “Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding.” —Bernard-Henri Lévy

    “I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.” New York Times

    Jealousy. . . is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived.” New York Times Book Review

    In the Labyrinth is better than an excellent novel: it is a great work of literature.” —Maurice Nadeau, France-Observateur

    “A highly emotional experience for the reader . . . Robbe-Grillet will take his place in world literature as a successor of Balzac and Proust.” Parade of Books , on In the Labyrinth

    “The suspense, built up by skillful near-repetition, keeps us on tenterhooks.” —Justin O’Brien, New York Times Book Review , on The Voyeur

    “I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way her persuades us to look anew at the commonplace.” —Jonathan Meades, Books and Bookmen , on The Voyeur

    “A haunting, mystifying evocation of a murder that will keep your attention riveted.” Dallas Morning News

    “[ Recollections of a Golden Triangle ] could be read as the French New Novelist’s tribute to the vibrant Latin American fiction that his own early works helped to inspire . . . Brilliant and hypnotic . . . A finely wrought example of a master’s art.” —William W. Stowe, New York Times Book Review

    “If Robbe-Grillet wants us to realize how tenuous the link is between past and present, reality and dream, and the tricks time plays on memory, he succeeds on all counts . . . If you make the effort [to read Recollections of a Golden Triangle ], you will have a richer and more rewarding experience that you would reading a conventional mystery story.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    “A sense of atmosphere and a power of representation that at best make one feel that one is looking over an artist’s shoulder with one eye on the canvas and the other on the reality that he is sketching.” Times (London), on Recollections of a Golden Triangle

    Read More

    Sign In Create an Account
    Search Engine Error - Endeca File Not Found