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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Oh Beth, don't have a go at Zola, he's fucking ace.:(
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Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:47,
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You seem like a nice chap, but you are wrong.Germinal? Toss. Thérèse Raquin? No thank you.
The other extreme isn't much better. Ever read Flaubert?
Alain Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand, is bloody brilliant. Les Gommes is a wonderful dream-sequence of a book, where the character doesn't know who he is or whether he's real, or what else is real, and he's detective-ing.
As I rather pretentiously said in my A Level French oral exam, it's the antithesis of Cartesian philosphy.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:51,
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Well, I'm just an engineer, not an arts student.So I guess you must be right*
* not all right
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Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14,
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