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Do Not Require Readers

Robbe-Grillet claims that, whereas the novels of Balzac or Dickens do not require readers, since they perform all the latter’s work themselves, his own writing calls for active readers who will piece it all together.

Tom McCarthy, from his introduction to Alain Robbe-Grillet’s JEALOUSY

See also Fuck The Average Reader.


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