LA Belle Captive

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Original title: La belle captive

first published 1975 French & European Pubns, 1985 paperback

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Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Belle Captive was published in 1975 and illustrated with 77 paintings by Rene Magritte. Robbe-Grillet has not chosen Magritte's paintings to mirror his text. Rather, he uses them as pretexts for the novel, letting them generate themes for an imaginary discourse that parallels their imagery, glosses them, contradicts them. Robbe-Grillet simultaneously comments on Magritte's paintings while tak...

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La belle captive edition · 1995 · University of California Press · 230 pages
LA Belle Captive paperback · 1985 · French & European Pubns · 9780686547426
Die schöne Gefangene edition · 1984 · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag · 156 pages

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