43 research outputs found
Table ronde. Le Nouveau Roman : passé, présent, futur
Les absents ont toujours tort et Jean Ricardou a dĂ» en faire la douloureuse expĂ©rience Ă la suite de ce colloque-bilan intitulĂ© « Three Decades of the French New Novel » quâorganise Tom Bishop avec Lois Oppenheim Ă lâuniversitĂ© de New York du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 1982. Quoique physiquement absent, Ricardou se trouve pourtant au cĆur de maints Ă©changes pendant lâune des deux tables rondes de clĂŽture qui rĂ©unit les romanciers Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Monique W..
Pleasure in Understanding, Pleasure in Not Understanding
This paper looks at Alain Resnaisâ Last Year in Marienbad (1961) and Chris Markerâs
La Jetée (1962). It rests on a premise of film as a constructed, ordered world that answers
only to itself. Both films address particular questions about time: what happens to our
anticipation of the future if we move back and forth in time reinventing our past and present?
(Marienbad) or, can we escape our ruined present by moving into the future? (La Jetée).
From Jacques Lacan, it borrows the concepts of the mirror stage by which we recognise
ourselves, and of the objet petit a, the looking for which (both in terms of âsearchâ and
âseeingâ) is that from which we derive our pleasure. From Jean-Luc Nancy it adopts
descriptions of how film touches us, and the careful orchestration of the pleasure that is
jouissance in being within this moment, not knowing where we are going
Reading: Alain Robbe-Grillet
In this audiovisual recording from Monday, March 22, 1982, as part of the 13th Annual UND Writers Conference: âInternational Writers,â Alain Robbe-Grillet reads from Djinn.
Interpreted by Virgil Benoit.
Introduced by Paul Schwartz