{"product_id":"why-i-love-barthes-alain-robbe-grillet-9780745650791","title":"Why I Love Barthes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher J駻e Lindon, he always cited the name of Roland Barthes. In 1980, he wrote his own 'I love, I don't love', published here for the first time, thinking about his friend. In 1985, he predicted: 'It is his work as a writer which will remain'. Ten years later, in 1995, he imagined him as an impatient, blithe novelist, merrily rewriting - 'euphorically, with inexhaustible happiness' - The Sorrows of Young Werther.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis small collection of conversations and short texts by Robbe-Grillet is like the deferred echo of those that Roland Barthes dedicated to him in his Critical Essays in 1964. It offers fresh insight into the development of Robbe-Grillet's own work as well as that of Barthes, and is a unique testimony to one of the most important literary friendships of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alain Robbe-Grillet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745650791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745650791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 4.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Alain Robbe-Grillet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925864874239,"sku":"9780745650791","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1c4627d7-393f-43a7-8104-423650171005.jpg?v=1681079826","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-i-love-barthes-alain-robbe-grillet-9780745650791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}