Re: RARA-AVIS: Introduction

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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Introduction
From: { brad brace } <bbrace@wired.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:43:39 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Etienne Borgers wrote:

> >
> >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.
> 
> 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.

Quite right! My mistake.

> Robbe-Grillet just used the detective plot as a mean. I  personally do not
> think it's a detective novel in its intention.

Yes. Who else has done this?


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