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Afekt a exteriorita: Robbe-Grilletova sartrovská inspirace
Affect and exteriority: sartrian inspiration of Alain Robbe-Grillet

Author(s): Josef Fulka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Affectivity ; phenomenology ; the French New Novel

Summary/Abstract: In the present text, the author focuses on Sartre’s influence on the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Sartre’s text that seems to have represented a major source of inspiration for Robbe-Grillet’s writing isa short 1939 essay entitled „Intentionality: A Fundamental Idea of Husserl’s Phenomenology“, whereSartre refuses the idea of knowledge as an absorption of objects in subject’s interiority. In the secondpart of the present paper, the author offers a close reading of Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy to support thisview, concentrating in particular on the problem of affectivity.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2019
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 135-146
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech