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The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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For a few brief decades in the 20th century important writers were expected to break the rules, violate all conventions, and in general rock the bloody boat. Instead of garnering praise by mastering the techniques of the trade, they made their name by subverting the accepted methodologies. In Ulysses, James Joyce inserted a single sentence that ran on f…

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