the necv ORleans Revierv A Journal Of LOYOLA UNIVERSITY Literature Vol. 1. No. 3/Spring 1969 & Culture Published By Loyola University of the South table of contents New Orleans for the articles New Orleans Ray Bradbury's Song of Experience/L T. B1dd1son Consortium: 226 Loyola University Machine Intelligence and the Arts: St. Mary's The Compleat Imitation Game/ John Mosier 246 Dominican College Blood and Land in 'A View of the Woods'/Don R1so. S.J 255 Xavier University Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Novelist Behind the Venetian Blinds/Catherine Savage Editor: 213 Miller Williams fiction Managing Editor: That's Your Story, Baby/Florence M Hecht .............. 221 Tom Bell Marie/William Kotzwinkle .................. 251 Mogen/Gerald Locklin . ........ Assoc. 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If we believe we see it in in France, the novel form has evolved toward a more a humanized way, we are anthropomorphizing, precise means of seeing. In the work of Alain without justification. In Robbe-Grillet's rigorously Robbe-Grillet, it has become a psychological instru­ scientific view, this is incorrect, therefore dishonest, ment, using optics, indicated verbally. leaving aside therefore harmful to ourselves. We need to surpass, much of the traditional contribution of human im­ he insists, our tragic and romantic notions about a agination, and many classical assumptions of the relationship between the world and us. He believes novelist, it has encompassed only the relationship that if we do so, we will know ourselves better and between a human look, on the one hand, and an be able to deal better with our presence in the object perceived on the other. It has limited literary world, with our dilemma. What he means by our di­ realism - and thus our assumptions about reality­ lemma is not a particular social or political situation to the content of such a seeing relationship. like the but the whole complex of factors that govern who works of the eighteenth century sensualist philoso­ we are and how we live and the image we have of phers, it presupposes that knowledge comes ourselves. through our senses, only. But unlike them, it does not assume that such knowledge is absolute or uni­ On the literary plane, this unemotional, straight­ versal. It explores only the personal look, the limited forward manner of seeing the world becomes stylis­ relationship of one or a few seeing human beings to tic objectivity. Objectivity, in Robbe-Grillet's writ­ the world of shapes, colors, and textures around ing, is first of all a refusal of metaphor. Metaphor them. It makes no statement about its own general sees qualities shared in common behind forms and validity; it has only a self-contained truth. It is, to surfaces; Robbe-Grillet sees only the forms and sur­ take lola's phrase in a new sense, "the world seen faces. No storm can be like the passion in a man's through a temperament." It is a literary relativism. heart: a storm is merely a natural phenomenon. Robbe-Grillet, like fellow new novelists, most of Therefore such comparisons and adjectives as whom have been published by the same house, did "stormy" must disappear when we are speaking of not spring from the Parisian literary establishment. anything besides a literal storm. Objectivity is also, His training was scientific; he had personal experi­ literally, a concentration on objects, which form the ence as an agronomist, specializing in tropical fruit research. He recognized no literary master - al­ world around us, to which we are not related in any moral or otherwise meaningful way, but which are a though it is clear that Sartre's Nausea and Camus' constant part of our field of vision, composing our The Stranger are the immediate ancestors of his own novels, without which he surely could not have outer space and furnishing our minds.