The Novel Today Quotes

“The meaning of the world around us can no longer be considered as other than fragmentary, temporary, and even contradictory, and is always in dispute. How can a work of art set out to illustrate any sort of meaning which is known in advance? The modern movel is an enquiry, but an enquiry which creates its own meaning as it goes along.”
― Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Novel Today: Edinburgh International Festival 1962: Programme and Notes, International Writer's Conference