Re: [microsound] ambient books

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ian, for the clarification. It's been a long time since I've read
through, much less seen, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," and I knew there was a
connection ... Alain Resnais. The ambient may owe more to Resnais'
sensibility, then.

I'm intrigued by mention of the Robbe-Grillet films, with which I'm
unfamiliar. A quick search at allmovie.com brings up some interesting
descriptions: "After an erotic nude posing before a total stranger, she is
kidnapped and chained by Arabs who pump her for information." Do you have
any recommendations?

-=Trace

> 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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