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andrew gallix andrew gallix menu skip to content home about books fiction interviews non fiction praise publications research antediluvian texts posted on august 4 2026 by andrew gallix delighted to discover that dennis cooper s spotlight on alain robbe grillet for a new novel 1963 posted on 3 august 2026 opens with an old essay of mine the link is here david shields recently dismissed most contemporary novels as antediluvian texts that could have been written by flaubert 150 years ago in no way claimed the author of reality hunger do they convey what it feels like to live in the 21st century he has a point albeit one that alain robbe grillet had already made in 1965 when he deplored the fact that young french novelists were praised for writing like stendhal but castigated as soon as they refused to abide by the dead rules of a bygone age along with michel butor nathalie sarraute and claude simon the main proponents of the new novel nouveau roman robbe grillet stood resolutely in the second camp in his essays he returns time and again to the notion that the novel from stendhal to joyce has constantly evolved hence the absurdity of using the norms of the past to judge the fiction of today far from representing a rejection of the past the quest for a new novel was thus very much in keeping with the history of a genre which by definition must always be renewed feeling that his work was too often misrepresented by the critical establishment with a few notable exceptions including barthes blanchot and nabokov robbe grillet published a series of articles to set the record straight in 1963 they were collected in towards a new novel for my money one of the most important works of postwar literary criticism however these critical reflections were never meant to constitute a manifesto every novel according to robbe grillet is a self sufficient work of art which cannot be reduced to some external meaning or truth that is known in advance the new novel as he put it is not a theory it is an exploration why bother writing a book that illustrates a rule when the statement of the rule would suffice quoting heidegger at the beginning of an essay on waiting for godot robbe grillet writes that the human condition is to be there in another essay he states that it is chiefly in its presence that the world s reality resides so there you have it man is here the world is there and the distance between the two lies at the heart of the new novel project we endow the world with meaning or meaninglessness in order to control it from this point of view the writer s traditional role was to excavate nature in order to unearth the hidden soul of things robbe grillet calls for the creation of a new form of fiction that reflects the more modest less anthropomorphic world we live in today one which is neither significant nor absurd but simply is this seemingly anodyne observation has serious literary ramifications gone is the traditional hero of yore who believed the world was there to be conquered and whose hour of glory coincided with the triumph of individualism gone is the humanist communion between people and things things are things and man is only man gone is the notion of tragedy which robbe grillet sees as a twisted ploy to reaffirm this solidarity i call out no one answers instead of concluding that there is no one there i decide to act as if someone were there but someone who for some reason or other will not answer in the new novel man looks at the world but the world does not look back which precludes any symbolism or transcendence the novelist s task now is to describe the material world not to appropriate it or project himself onto it to record the distance between human beings and things without interpreting this distance as a painful division all this implies that the entire literary language be reformed similes and metaphors which are often used gratuitously to confer literary status upon a text are seldom innocent since they tend to anthropomorphise the world the new novel is routinely attacked for being inhuman and coldly descriptive robbe grillet responds that his work is in fact far less objective than the godlike omniscient narrator who presides over so many traditional novels description here is purely subjective and takes centre stage whereas in balzac for instance it simply sets the scene by lending the plot an air of authenticity instead of referring to an external pre existing reality robbe grillet s descriptions seem to create their own objects their own hallucinatory reality nothing he explains is more fantastic ultimately than precision the reality of any work of art is its form and to separate style from substance is to remove the novel from the realm of art art robbe grillet reminds us is not just a pretty way of presenting a message it is the message like the world out there a novel is self sufficient and expresses nothing but itself its necessity has nothing to do with its utility whenever an author envisages a future book it is always a way of writing which first of all occupies his mind which leads robbe grillet to state provocatively that the genuine writer has nothing to say he has only a way of speaking creative writing classes should always start and end on that note posted in news tagged 2026 alain robbe grillet andrew gallix dennis cooper new novel nouveau roman leave a comment je est un autre posted on august 3 2026 by andrew gallix me my sister sarah posted in je est un autre tagged andrew gallix photobboth sarah leave a comment je est un autre posted on august 2 2026 by andrew gallix me sam italy july 2026 posted in je est un autre tagged andrew gallix italy july 2026 sam mills leave a comment the rhyl deal posted on july 31 2026 by andrew gallix just a few thoughts upon reading tom mccarthy s forthcoming the rhyl poster tom mccarthy s the rhyl poster is in my opinion one of his very best novels to date like a graham greene rewritten by delillo with a little help from ballard remainder his debut opened with a reference to simon critchley s work his latest book is actually dedicated to the philosopher who was also mccarthy s one time partner in crime at the international necronautical society at the outset a taxi accidentally exits a car park through the entrance thereby producing a remainder a surplus piece of paper in the shape of a ticket that preserves its potentiality by remaining in abeyance the unsurrendered ticket paper scrap that had purloined itself slipped through the architecture of the system it was meant to serve there are other similar intervals interregna in the novel where the order of things is subtly subverted benjamin stanton the protagonist argues that the time of law he is a legal expert is in fact an aporia the gap the interval the instant of suspense that escapes time his strange stutter remixes his speech so that the ends of sentences come first his sentences exit through the entrance he is depicted at home hand and pilot falcon pen suspended above a rectangular sheet of white paper a suspension which is the very space of literature stanton found himself placed in an interval a stretch of time that once vacated turned into a magnet for events the ur hiatus however is the eponymous and recurring image of the rhyl poster that of a worker later likened to an actor playing the part of hamlet on a cigarette break at a railway station who has removed a poster from a hoarding and is yet to replace it with a new one this hesitation between palimpsest and blank canvas as well as the worker s temporary désoeuvrement the incompletion of his task which is reminiscent of the incompletion of the ticket s cycle open up a space of creative freedom exiting through the entrance the rhyl poster is among so many other things a compendium of mccarthy s favourite themes slightly menacing bureaucratic environments here the court of justice in strasbourg simulacra copies without originals terrorism realism metaphor what things weapons of mass destruction for instance really stand for time incest entomology voices piped in from elsewhere speech impediments geometry archaeology conceptual art not forgetting loops cycles and webs there are new themes too such as the world of video games or the zombie half life of the uk now that it has unplugged from the european grid benjamin stanton s origins he is a foundling and even nationality he claims to have taken on irish nationality remain shrouded in mystery we know that he is a veteran of the war in iraq and is now a star référendaire at the european court of justice after meeting a shadowy figure called pirotti who is at the head of the centre for juridical collaboration stanton becomes a double agent to sweep the old order away and bring the new one in didn t this task call for an outlaw for an act of violence possibly under the growing influence of the little blue pills pirotti has introduced him to and to which he becomes addicted he sets about composing his great counter confession a demented gesamtkunstwerk a universal grammar that he prophesies would do nothing less than lay the groundwork for the founding of a whole new order i ll stop there no spoilers about the ecstatic apocalyptic denouement from time to time we need to be reminded that tom mccarthy is one of the best and most important writers of the 21st century the rhyl deal posted in news tagged the rhyl poster tom mccarthy leave a comment tom mccarthy and loren ipsum in santa fe posted on july 29 2026 by andrew gallix may 2025 tom mccarthy reading loren ipsum chez ed ruscha in santa fe new mexico the idyllic house where he wrote parts of the rhyl poster 2026 picture courtesy of tom mccarthy posted in je est un autre tagged 2026 andrew gallix london sam mills leave a comment je est un autre posted on june 30 2026 by andrew gallix me sam mills london june 2026 posted in je est un autre tagged 2026 andrew gallix london sam mills leave a comment heatwave posted on june 20 2026 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