illuminates how each of the two writers deconstructs existing theoretical notions of literary creation in order to devise a series of linguistic codes that in their totality challenge and question more traditional methods of representing reality.

Pablo Gil Casado, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill makes a substantial contribution to the field of comparative studies, and is particularly useful for anyone interested in the French and Spanish “new” novel.” – Prof.

In the case of Robbe-Grillet, the reader is confronted with a crossword puzzle, whereas in the case of Benet, Sánchez affirms that the reader is presented with “a textual labyrinth of descriptions, allusions, different perspectives and conjectures which affords the reader a strong sense of incongruity, strangeness, ambiguity and mystery. The critic also elucidates some similarities, pointing out that both novelists share an intense dislike for Realist literature, as well as for pre-established, highly predictable meanings. Whereas on the one hand the French writer heaps up a multitude of clues out of which readers must make some kind of sense, the Spanish novelist, on the other hand, employs a vast array of narrative artifices which startle the reader in telling so very much, he really tells nothing at all. OL20655379W Page_number_confidence 93.33 Pages 182 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220513095700 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 264 Scandate 20220511113055 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0394624238 Tts_version 5.“Sánchez’s study examines the two “innovators” and determines that, despite a prevailing opinion to the contrary, Robbe-Grillet and Benet in fact demonstrate very distinct narrative features. Urn:lcp:fornewnovelessay0000robb:epub:30ee85da-b34a-456a-8c64-9dcec9e5f135 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fornewnovelessay0000robb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s223hsb04s6 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0394624238ĩ780394624235 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8930 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001038 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:38:38 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40480205 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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