19 septembre 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Alisa Zhulina, « Vladimir Nabokov and Alain Robbe-Grillet », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.5405
Is Nabokov [the] precursor of the French New Novel?—Alfred Appel Jr. I. Introduction Few literary contemporaries of Nabokov ever gained his respect. Those lucky to garner Nabokov’s praise were often writers composing in French such as Raymond Queneau whose Exercices de style (1947) was, according to Nabokov, “a thrilling masterpiece” and Franz Hellens, a Belgian writer whose novel La Femme partagée (1929) appealed to Nabokov’s taste (Strong Opinions, 173-175). In their turn, French writers an...