Clope au dossier

by Robert Pinget

Clope au dossier est le développement romanesque de la pièce radiophonique intitulée La Manivelle, que Samuel Beckett a traduite en anglais pour la radio anglaise. Dans cette pièce, deux vieillards, au hasard d’une rencontre, évoquent le passé, la petite vie provinciale, les connaissances communes. Mais leur mémoire les trahit, ils se contredisent, confondent dates et évènements. Dans Clope au dossier, on retrouve ces deux personnages et leur long bavardage – mais intégrés à une histoire plus complexe.

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

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.

(from Wikipedia)