Nouveau Roman

http://www.alldivx.com/acteur/gerard_depardieu3.jpg

That pic is what came up when I tried to find an image of Depardieu from Le Camion. Not the right film, I think.

I think that's from the time travel 2001 parody buddy movie in which Pierre Richard is briefly transformed into a chimp.

Wished I had voted for Duras now. The Lover is pretty excellent.

Just a day after this poll, browsing bkshops again...got hold of a Claude Simon novel.

Nearly a year passes by...a few notes:

- Not sure why Cortazar (as good as he ws) was considered to be a 'Roman' writer at all! (Blame wiki, not me)

- Since then I've read some Butor, Ricardou, Sarraute...I like it that this all mostly short fiction that doesn't stop you from grinding your teeth.

- Duras seems to be way more varied than as a Roman writer, she seems much more preoccupied with exposing a blankness to the whole business of love.

Hell, at one point Backett was grouped in with them. Literally, in a staged photo.

I'm sorry that I missed the poll. I've got a definite fave who got no votes.

i thought nouveau roman novels were mainly French...the one book I read about it (The New Novel: From Queneau to Pinget) listed only seven French practitioners, five of whom were included this poll...

Yeah its all French, although I'm sure there must be one or two non-French writers who might use the techniques of the Roman.

Also I really like how some of these writers are connected with film. Has anyone read Jean Cayrol?

Bar Duras and Blanchot I don't think much has stayed with me although I quite like to read Simon again.

But anyway.

Thrilled to announce that in 2021 we will be publishing a translation (by @altaifland & Nealand) of Le Camion by Marguerite Duras.

— Contra Mundum Press (@_contramundum_) May 5, 2020

The Truck or The Lorry?

Love that movie

Also, http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/indochina-song

no votes for duras is criminal, but glad time has redeemed. she always did seem an odd fit here, though.

feel like it's time for sarraute to come back in season. any contemporary practitioners?

Think I must have been the vote for Sarraute.

I read The Lover when it first came out in English, '85, maybe '86 if trade pb, don't remember. Just remember liking it, though some alarm bells from my own life, possibly (emotional hypochondria?)

Wiki lists several versions:
There are two published versions of The Lover: one written in the form of an autobiography, without any superimposed temporal structures, as the young girl narrates in first-person; the other, called The North China Lover and released in conjunction with the film version of the work, is in film script form, in the third person, with written dialogue and without internal monologue. This second version also contains more humor than the original.

In the first version of Avital Inbar's Hebrew translation (Maariv publishers,1986), there is (page 11) an excerpt, dictated by Marguerite Duras on the phone to her translator. A section that does not appear in any other version of the book.

Barbara Bray's English translation won the Scott Moncrieff Prize and PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 1986.

Surely that's supposed to be Jean Ricardou.

Does Lasses refer to the young Scottish women writers producing novels in this style?

The wikipedia page declares Mark Z. Danielewski to be "in the style of."

Review of a Sarraute autobiog:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n17/toril-moi/it-isn-t-your-home

Its an ok review except the case for Sarraute's fiction is p/weak (that she somehow could be read alongside with people like Ferrante and Sebald isn't really true).

Duras is a much better writer/artist (MUBI are running a short season as we speak) except I don't think she writes like Sarraute or Grillet at all.

https://www.contramundumpress.com/the-darkroom

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-path-of-cheerful-despair-on-marguerite-durass-my-cinema/