Roch C. Smith

Anthony N. Fragola

Erotik Düş Makinesi, yazdığı romanlar ve teorik metinlerle Yeni Roman akımının öncülerinden kabul edilen, aynı zamanda sinema tarihinde önemli bir yer edinmiş olan Alain Robbe-Grillet'nin sinemayla olan ilişkisi ve yönetmenliği üzerine yaklaşık on yıllık bir süre içerisinde yapılmış söyleşileri kapsıyor. Kitap, okura Alain Robbe-Grillet'yi filmleri aracılığıyla daha yakından tanıma fırsatı sunmasının yanında, hem onun filmografisiyle yeni tanışacaklar için bu sıradışı izleme deneyimine katkı sağlamayı, hem de onun filmlerine aşina olanlar için yeni bakış açıları vaat ediyor.

"Şimdiye kadar hakkında konuştuğum şeylerin hepsi kültür aracılığıyla öğrenilebilecek kültürel olgular; ancak bir eserde yalnızca yazarının bilebileceği pek çok kişisel olgu da vardır. Bence eğer kattığı her şeyi anında fark edebilseydik, Shakespeare'in eserleri üzerine hâlâ aynı ilgiyle çalışamazdık. Bir kitap okumanın, bir film ya da Shakespeare oyunu izlemenin büyüsü hep yenilenen bir şey, ilk kez okuyor ya da izliyorcasına. Dolayısıyla, eğer sinema bir sanatsa, ertelenmiş bir anlam içerme özelliğini hep korumalı."

Alain Robbe - Grillet ile Filmleri Üzerine Söyleşiler

Erotik Düş Makinesi

Robbe-Grillet is a visionary who seeks to discover unfamiliar ways of seeing and interpreting. His films, like his novels, challenge the limits of expected narrative structures and question the comfortable assumptions of conventional realism. In the interviews, conducted from 1982 until 1991, Fragola and Smith examine all nine of the films that Robbe-Grillet has created, specifically exploring the cultural milieu to which they are so closely and problematically related.

Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films

The Erotic Dream Machine

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century France's most original thinkers.

Philosopher of Science and Imagination

Gaston Bachelard, Revised and Updated

"Transforming bewilderment into understanding and pleasure while preserving a sense of Robbe-Grillet's considerable richness and complexity, Smith elucidates the defining elements of the writer's fictional world - characters that barely exist, changeable narrators, plots that defy logic, notoriously meticulous descriptions that never quite form a complete story. Smith examines Robbe-Grillet's embrace of discontinuity, circularity, indeterminacy, and linguistic play. Smith also poses questions about how we should view this perplexing writer: as an author of hyperobjective novels and short stories, a subjective novelist, a realist, or a writer who undermines the narrative's claim to represent reality. In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--BOOK JACKET.

Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet

Comprehensive overview of the entire spectrum of works by one of twentieth-century Frances most original thinkers. Gaston Bachelard, one of twentieth-century Frances most original thinkers, is known by English-language readers primarily as the author of The Poetics of Space and several other books on the imagination, but he made significant contributions to the philosophy and history of science. In this book, Roch C. Smith provides a comprehensive introduction to Bachelards work, demonstrating how his writings on the literary imagination can be better understood in the context of his exploration of how knowledge works in science. After an overview of Bachelards writings on the scientific mind as it was transformed by relativity, quantum physics, and modern chemistry, Smith examines Bachelards works on the imagination in light of particular intellectual values Bachelard derived from science. His trajectory from science to a specifically literary imagination is traced by recognizing his concern with what science teaches about how we know, and his increasing preoccupation with questions of being when dealing with poetic imagery. Smith also explores the material and dynamic imagination associated with the four elementsfire, water, air, and earthand the phenomenology of creative imagination in Bachelards Poetics of Space, his Poetics of Reverie, and in the fragments of Poetics of Fire.

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