Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called "new novel" which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy.
This volume, which offers incisive essays on Robbe-Grillet by Professor Bruce Morrissette of the University of Chicago and by French critics Roland Barthes and Anne Minor, also contains a helpful bibliography of writings by and about the author.
"Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism."--John Updike
"Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space"--Roland Barthes
"Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time."--Claude Mauriac
"Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding."--Bernard-Henri Lévy
"I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."--New York Times
"Jealousy . . . is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived."--New York Times Book Review
"In the Labyrinth is better than an excellent novel: it is a great work of literature."--Maurice Nadeau, France-Observateur
"A highly emotional experience for the reader . . . Robbe-Grillet will take his place in world literature as a successor of Balzac and Proust."--Parade of Books, on In the Labyrinth