the Cine Romance in Marienbad: real and imaginary, memory delirium, space time, language metalanguage

Ever since the novel emerged, it has existed between the genres of tragedy and comedy, between the novella and the short story, as the drama of a character amidst other characters, objects and time. Literature has synthesised concepts and fused elements, such as object and subject - in the essayistic conception of the Nouveau Roman - transforming the character into a being wandering through stories in an attempt to alter them. Cinema captured this transformation, exploring its origins in the format closest to what the novel would be - the feature-length fiction film. In the 1950s, the contemporary novel and its fictional experiments served as the platform for a work born between the two fields - literature and cinema - of a passionate drama, a typical love triangle, almost a cliché, extending from its original forms (the film's scene and characters) to other possible forms (statues in the scene, the theatre in the opening and closing sequences, the figure of the game present in every staging). The Cine-Romance in Marienbad is a study of this experience, how it originated and how it was directed, to the point of creating a work that synthesises contemporaneity, the individual trapped in their history, their own condition of existence.

Pagina's: 104, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing