Posted by joffre on 16/2/2009, 22:25:16, in reply to "Re: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy - This post contains SPOLIERS"
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Maybe you all know this, but I think that's a Balzac joke. Balzac wanted the novel to compete with the civil register.
I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhZjY7T07E. I don't know if it's worth watching or not. It's quite long. I've given you part two of ten. Part one was some old guy taking seven minutes to introduce Robbe-Grillet.