Re: [microsound] ambient books

["ian stewart" <artsonics@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--> Yes, good choice there with Robbe-Grillet. His films (_Last Year at
  Marienbad_ and _Hiroshiman Mon Amour_) work in similarly ambient terrain. 
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Robbe-Grillet was not involved with Hiroshima, Mon Amour- the screenplay was 
by Duras. However, both Hiroshima and Marienbad were directed by Alain 
Resnais. Robbe-Grillet directed several films, but I would not describe the 
ones I've seen as "ambient" (instead, maybe "prurient"). Because of their 
extensive use of descriptive language and experimentation with narrative, 
many of the so-called French New Novels could be labelled "ambient" in the 
sense we are discussing- Claude Simon speaks most to me, but I have also 
been very impressed with several of Robbe-Grillet's novels (Jealousy and the 
Voyeur in particular), Claude Ollier's La Mise en Scene, and early Duras 
(although she isn't always considered a "new novelist" by lit critics). 
best,

ian

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