SOURCE: “Absurdist Estrangement and the Subversion of Narrativity in ‘La Plage,’” in Modern Language Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, January, 1994, pp. 50-60.
In the following essay, Milman provides analysis of Robbe-Grillet's metaphysical concerns and narrative presentation in the short story “La Plage.” Milman notes strong similarities between Robbe-Grillet's “absurd view of man” and the philosophical tenets of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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