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Cette voix

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"Cette voix" est difficile à entendre, indistinct, composé de nombreuses voix remontant à plusieurs générations, mais il est aussi "le même du début à la fin". "Cette voix" est un texte contenant non seulement de nombreuses phrases qui s'estompent en une série de périodes, mais aussi des personnages et des événements qui ont aussi peu de stabilité que des cumulus balayés par le vent..... On écoute les tonalités, l'esprit dérive avec la voix narratrice qui combine et recombine les souvenirs et les imaginations.

229 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1983

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Robert Pinget

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Robert Pinget was a Swiss-born French novelist and playwright associated with the nouveau roman movement.

After completing his law studies and working as a lawyer for a year, he moved to Paris in 1946 to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

In 1951, he published his first novel Entre Fantoine et Agapa. After publishing two other novels, but then having his fourth rejected by Gallimard, Pinget was recommended by Alain Robbe-Grillet and Samuel Beckett to Jérôme Lindon, head of Éditions de Minuit, where he subsequently published Graal flibuste in 1956. Éditions de Minuit became his main publisher.

Scholars and critics have often associated his work with that of his friend Samuel Beckett, who he met in 1955.

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December 21, 2016

(Read in the Trio volume)

A mysterious death or deaths. Familial claustrophobia. Repetition of words and phrases, telling and retelling, circuitous unfolding, refolding, cutting up and inserting, narrative builds only to collapse on itself. Viewpoints appear to shift, although Pinget’s preface specifies it’s only one voice throughout, but with different tones, the purpose being to capture the singular voice (and the form to mimic anamnesis).
Say everything again, for fear of having said nothing.
Atmosphere felt similar to reading Beckett’s Molloy trilogy, though it’s merely a vague feeling more than a commonality of any specific elements. Just that sense of grey heaviness permeating the text. An intriguing text, though difficult to parse. Fits in with the Nouveau Roman crew, especially early Robbe-Grillet and early Duras: vagueness of plot (if any), attention paid instead to the words themselves, the way of telling.
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December 8, 2013
Ce que j'ai aimé: Franchement, quand j'ai emprunté ce livre de la bibliothèque, je cherchais un livre français qui ne demanderait beaucoup de moi: un roman simple avec un récit qui serait direct et linéaire. De plus, je l'ai lu sporadiquement pendant plus d'un mois, pas le moyen idéal.



Ce que je n'ai pas aimé: Je pense que n'aime pas des livres abstraits, même s'ils me font resembler comme une intellectuelle. Le réalisme socialiste pour moi.

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