Literature as Perverse Strategy: Alain Robbe-Grillet Cover Image

Literatura jako perverzní strategie: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Literature as Perverse Strategy: Alain Robbe-Grillet

Author(s): Denis Katsaros
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Alain Robbe-Grillet; perversion; Lacanian psychoanalysis; fetishism; the double

Summary/Abstract: The perverse imagery was always one of the privileged and declared sources of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s artistic expression. This study tries to find a latent core under the surface of Robbe-Grillet’s sadis tic images, which reside in the splitting of the literary subject: a splitting which these images try to intensify and remove at the same time in their self-contradictory circular movement, whether at the level of the doubles of literary characters or of the author himself. The image conceived as a fetish will be used with regard to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory as a tool for interpreting the structure of Robbe-Grillet’s fiction marked by a paradoxical indifference to the differences and logic of the real world.

  • Issue Year: XXXV/2025
  • Issue No: 71
  • Page Range: 25-40
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech
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