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| Author | : Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780520059160 |
Based on the myth of the beautiful captive, this novel, first published in 1975 and reprinted with a critical essay, takes its themes from the paintings of the French surrealist, constructing a dream-like narrative suffused with eroticism, playfulness, and subversion.
| Author | : Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780520207073 |
"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 Ren� 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.
| Author | : Anthony N. Fragola |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Richard Jonathan |
| Publisher | : Richard Jonathan |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 2017-04-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 2955975109 |
| Author | : Lucy Fischer |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-11-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0814346383 |
Examines the fascinating ties between Surrealist artist René Magritte and the cinema.
| Author | : Alain Robbe-Grillet |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2007-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802199356 |
From the French master of the avant-garde: “A spy tale whose prime puzzle lies in the philosophical intricacies of its own construction” (Entertainment Weekly). We are in the bombed-out Berlin of 1949, after the Second World War, rendered with an atmosphere reminiscent of Orson Welles’ The Third Man. Henri Robin, a special agent of the French secret service, arrives in the ruined former capital to which he feels linked by a vague but recurrent childhood memory. But the real purpose of his mission has not been revealed to him, for his superiors have decided to afford him only as much information as is indispensable for the action expected of his blind loyalty. But nothing is what it seems, and matters do not turn out as anticipated . . . “Exhibits a sensibility as nervous and contemporary—not to mention witty—as that of any novelist working today.” —The Los Angeles Times “Mirrors, doubles, double agents, repetitions, trompe l’oeil war paintings, dream sequences, sexual torture, a criminal mafia of postwar Nazis and murky memories add to the disquieting, disorienting literary puzzle.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A Gothic masterpiece . . . Repetition is fearfest like no other, and a rewarding text that demands to be reread again and again. The master hasn’t lost his touch.” —The Avon Grove Sun
| Author | : Maisey Yates |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2017-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459292960 |
Innocent in the beast's bed! When Belle Chamberlain offers to take her father's place as his prisoner, Prince Adam Katsaros strikes a deal. Deeply scarred by the accident that claimed his wife, Adam isolated himself in his forbidding castle. But Belle's innocent beauty could redeem his reputation as he reclaims his throne… He'll release her father if Belle poses as his mistress! Belle can neither deny nor resist her brooding captor! Adam's burning gaze awakens a newfound desire, and every touch brands Belle as his. His ruthlessness is legendary, unless Belle can tame the beast inside…
| Author | : J. M. DeMatteis |
| Publisher | : Vertigo |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Graphic novels |
| ISBN | : 9781401202637 |
Written by J.M. DeMatteis Art and cover by Kent Williams One of the most beautiful artistic achievements in comics is collected again! Telling the richly metaphorical tale of Blood, a young vampire, BLOOD: A TALE follows the endless cycle of life and death to find the seeds of redemption in a fever-dream of a dying king, love eternal, and a life of bloodlust.
| Author | : Ian K. Steele |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 552 |
| Release | : 2013-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773589902 |
Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.
| Author | : Jennifer Donnelly |
| Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2017-01-31 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1368002250 |
Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again. The charming and mysterious characters Belle meets within the pages of Nevermore offer her glamorous conversation, a life of dazzling Parisian luxury, and even a reunion she never thought possible. Here Belle can have everything she ever wished for. But what about her friends in the Beast's castle? Can Belle trust her new companions inside the pages of Nevermore? Is Nevermore's world even real? Belle must uncover the truth about the book, before she loses herself in it forever.
