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A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement"
A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement"
A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement"
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A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement"

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A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535839242
A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement"

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    A Study Guide for Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Replacement" - Gale

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    The Replacement

    Alain Robbe-Grillet

    1962

    Introduction

    The Replacement by Alain Robbe-Grillet was collected with other sketches and published in 1962 under the title Instantanes (translated as Snapshots). The Replacement, along with the other sketches in Snapshots, is a classic text of the New Novel movement, which originated in France in the 1950s. The movement was made up of a group of writers that included Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor. These writers rejected literary traditions of plot, action, narrative, and characterization in their works, and created a new literary form that presented an objective record of objects. As the movement quickly became popular throughout the literary world, Robbe-Grillet became its most famous writer and spokesperson.

    The Replacement, an intricate interweaving of three plot lines, continually confounds readers’ efforts to piece together a coherent and definitive explanation, which is exactly the goal of the writers of the New Novel movement. Their point is that authors should not impose meaning on a literary work, that instead readers should be left to decide for themselves how to come to an understanding of

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