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Thursday, March 6, 2008 12:00 AM

The man who ruined the novel

Alain Robbe-Grillet turned the masses against inventive fiction. Now that he's dead, will experimental writing make a comeback?

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  • Wednesday, March 5, 2008 09:09 PM

    "The Erasers"

    "The Erasers" is the only one of Robbe-Grillet's books I ever read. It was a long time ago, but I remember enjoying it--it really didn't seem pretentious, dry, or strange to me, though I don't like(or don't understand) experimental fiction in general.

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