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Re: RARA-AVIS: Introduction



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>I've been utilizing the paradigm of the 'private investigator' or
>'detective' in my creative visual work. An early favorite was Genet's 'The
>Erasers,'      **
 where the detective causes a previously-fictional crime to occur
>by investigating-it.

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I think there is a confusion here. **
'Ereasers' is by Alain Robbe-Grillet, French author and theoretician of the 
'new novel' movement. This book was published in French in 1953 and
translated into English in 1964.

The 'new novel'  movement attacks the conventional construction of a novel
in  its plot and narrative parts.

In French 'detective' novels there was of course some influence on some
writers with  this new approach . Due to the kind of public the publishers
think they have for detective/crime novels, there was  however rarely a full
exploration of that kind of construction in the detective/crime genre.

Robbe-Grillet just used the detective plot as a mean. I  personally do not
think it's a detective novel in its intention.
 
E.Borgers
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/
Hard-Boiled Mysteries

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