- Taschenbuch: 250 Seiten
- Verlag: University of California Press; Auflage: Reprint (Oktober 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520207076
- ISBN-13: 978-0520207073
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 27,7 x 21,6 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.364.751 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Library Journal
Robbe-Grillet, one of the creators of the nouveau roman, has interpolated 77 paintings of the surrealist Rene Magritte into this imaginative, unusual detective story. On a superficial level, the work concerns a beautiful young virgin who is abducted, taken to a canning factory, raped with a baluster, and drowned. Though the paintings do not correspond directly to the story, they become metaphors for aspects of the author's themes of play, eroticism, and subversion. Robbe-Grillet allows the reader to become involved in the creation of the story by searching for analogies. Of great interest is the essay by translator Stoltzfus, "The Elusive Heroine," which enriches the reader's understanding of the symbolism used. Also useful is an appendix delineating the novel's plot. Combining interpretation with the novel itself makes this work much more accessible to nonspecialists. Highly recommended for academic and large public libraries.
Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"It begins with a stone falling, in the silence, vertically, immobile. It is falling from a great height, a meteor, a massive, compact, oblong block of rock, like a giant egg with a pocked, uneven surface." The opening sentence of "La Belle Captive" introduces a dreamworld where the conventions of the traditional novel have been overthrown. Objects move through space without regard to laws of nature, characters move through the text in a maddening complex of events. Published in 1975, Alain Robbe-Grillet's nouveau roman is illustrated with 77 paintings by Rene Magritte. Robbe-Grillet uses Magritte's paintings as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them.Simultaneously, he comments on Magritte's paintings while taking advantage of them to parade his own favorite themes: play, eroticism, subversion. Robbe-Grillet gives us a plot that frustrates expectations yet shares his pleasure with the mysterious and poetic in Magritte's art, and with the cultural myths that painter and novelist both parody. The book includes a critical essay by novelist and translator Ben Stoltzfus on the pictorial and linguistic affinities between Magritte and Robbe-Grillet. Stoltzfus explores the image of the beautiful captive not only in her mythical and erotic dimensions, but also as a metaphor for the artistic process.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the greatest 20th century writers, and arguably the most important living one, teamed up with the paintings of Rene Magritte, another superlative figure in 20th century art. How could this possibly go wrong? For starters, the translation is not by Richard Howard, who translated The Voyeur, Jealousy, and basically all of Robbe-Grillet's greatest works. No other translator has ever achieved the precision, polish and perfection of Howard's efforts, which have the effect of making even Robbe-Grillet's most Gothic passages seem incomparably elegant.
The other glaring problem with the book is the quality of the painting reproductions. Printed in low-detail black and white, they function schematically as narrative signposts, but convey little beauty in their own right. Having viewed almost all the original paintings, I would say that even full-color glossy reproductions generally fail to convey their surprising sensuousness, and that the reproductions in this book fail miserably. They're just plain ugly.
This is not a bad book, by any means, but it does fall very far short of what it might have been.
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How could this possibly go wrong?
18. Dezember 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the greatest 20th century writers, and arguably the most important living one, teamed up with the paintings of Rene Magritte, another superlative figure in 20th century art. How could this possibly go wrong? For starters, the translation is not by Richard Howard, who translated The Voyeur, Jealousy, and basically all of Robbe-Grillet's greatest works. No other translator has ever achieved the precision, polish and perfection of Howard's efforts, which have the effect of making even Robbe-Grillet's most Gothic passages seem incomparably elegant.
The other glaring problem with the book is the quality of the painting reproductions. Printed in low-detail black and white, they function schematically as narrative signposts, but convey little beauty in their own right. Having viewed almost all the original paintings, I would say that even full-color glossy reproductions generally fail to convey their surprising sensuousness, and that the reproductions in this book fail miserably. They're just plain ugly.
This is not a bad book, by any means, but it does fall very far short of what it might have been.
This is the French origninal NOT a translation.
8. Mai 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
This is not a review but a comment about the other review (I know one's not supposed to do that, but I can't post comments, and what I want to say needs to be said).
The review I'm talking about is the one entitled "How could this possibly go wrong?" posted by "alaska". He goes on and on about the translation, but this page is for the French original! (La Belle Captive (French Edition), ISBN 068654742X .) "Alaska"'s review is entirely appopriate on the Stoltzfus's English-translation page, but here it is absurd.
To be fair, it may not be the reviewer's fault -- because of one of Amazon's strangest and most noxious customs of agglomerating reviews posted to different products into a single pile of what, when used that way, amounts to nonsense. So perhaps it's Amazon rather than "alaska", but please be aware of the fact that "alaska"'s review is written for an item other than what is sold on this page and is entirely irrelevant in the current context.
The review I'm talking about is the one entitled "How could this possibly go wrong?" posted by "alaska". He goes on and on about the translation, but this page is for the French original! (La Belle Captive (French Edition), ISBN 068654742X .) "Alaska"'s review is entirely appopriate on the Stoltzfus's English-translation page, but here it is absurd.
To be fair, it may not be the reviewer's fault -- because of one of Amazon's strangest and most noxious customs of agglomerating reviews posted to different products into a single pile of what, when used that way, amounts to nonsense. So perhaps it's Amazon rather than "alaska", but please be aware of the fact that "alaska"'s review is written for an item other than what is sold on this page and is entirely irrelevant in the current context.
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