The blood of dreams: Robbe-Grillet’s project A fiction ruptured by its narration; The collapse of the narrative voice; Writing/reading; Black and white—and red; The play of the text; Interrupting the code

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The blood of dreams: Robbe-Grillet’s project A fiction ruptured by its narration; The collapse of the narrative voice; Writing/reading; Black and white—and red; The play of the text; Interrupting the code

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ABSTRACT

On p. 18 of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Project for a Revolution in New York, there is a description of ‘two figures’. A man, subsequently said to be black, is leaning over a young blond girl called Laura. ‘The scene’, we learn, ‘includes an objective trace of struggle.’ There is blood on the girl’s palm, apparently because it has been scraped on a broken window-pane.