![]() ![]() Yet ARG's techniques (repetition, contradiction, multiplicity) fail to achieve this stated end (forgivable), and his 'transitional' style bungles the art of the attempt (unforgivable). A so-called 'objective' object - one not caught up in this relation - would then be free to be as 'real' as reality, and the human would be free to be only what it is - without supplement. only to be seen as a virtual image, which is the reflection/refraction of a projection of a human desire or relation. writing the anthropomorphized landscape/object) he is justified: This is the perennial feature of bad undergraduate writing.īut ARG goes beyond your Freshman (Sophomoric?) English comp elective: Demanding the novel be freed of the Elizabethan conventions of Plot, Character, Metaphor, and that Objects be freed of the heretofore unquestioned relation to the Human i.e. ![]() In his (mono)maniacal aversion to the Pathetic Fallacy (i.e. ![]() No longer the bête noire of the literary world (or of anything anymore), the contemporary Alain Robbe-Grillet (ARG) is a conscientious professor of creative writing. "Things are things, and man is only man." Writing Against the Pathetic Fallacy ![]()
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