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Nature, Humanism and Tragedy

“Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming it, and thus of justifying it by putting it into the form of a necessity, of a kind of wisdom, or of a purification. To reject this regeneration and to seek the technical means of not succumbing . . .” read more

The Way Back

“To be published shortly in Snapshots and Towards a New Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated by Barbara Wright, John Calder (Publishers) Ltd, 18 Brewer Street, w.i, at 35s.” read more

Condition of the Novel (France)

“There have been a number of very interesting speeches here. But I must express my astonishment at hearing the majority of Soviet writers expressing the same sharp criticism of modern literary pursuits as are made in Western bourgeois society. Here, as in the West, we are blamed for . . .” read more