David Hayman

James Joyce's Ulysses : critical essays

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Conventions Telemachus by Bernard Benstock Nestor by E. L. Epstein Proteus by J. Mitchell Morse Calypso by Adaline Glasheen Lotus Eaters by Phillip F. Herring Hades by R. M. Adams Aeolus by M. J. C. Hodgart Lestrygonians by Melvin J. Friedman Scylla and Charybdis by Robert Kellogg Wandering Rocks by Clive Hart Sirens by Jackson I. Cope Cyclops by David Hayman Nausicaa by Fritz Senn The Oxen of the Sun by J. S. Atherton Circe by Hugh Kenner Eumaeus by Gerald L. Bruns Ithaca by A. Walton Litz Penelope by Fr. Robert Boyle, S. J.

An Interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet

The interview took place on June 13, 1973, in Alain Robbe-Grillets Paris apartment in a good sized room, conservatively furnished, with Japanese prints on the walls, a number of well-stocked bookcases, and books piled randomly on the floor by the windows. Robbe-Grillet lounged in a corner of his couch behind a long coffee table containing an odd assortment of books, including one on repressed homosexuality. Though the original topic was to be the most recent novels (Maison de rendez-vous and Project for a Revolution in New York), we were soon on to other, less obvious topics. The following translation tries to capture in English the conversational flavor of an intentionally informal encounter characterized by a maximum of free exchange. To this end I have even retained passages in which Robbe-Grillet rather obviously cannibalizes his own pronouncements. Certain gaps in the logic are due to telephone calls, but in general the conversation picked up smoothly after these interruptions. There are no long silences on the tape; there is no stuttering. Unfortunately, I cannot give the reader a sense of Robbe-Grillets resonant voice constantly changing register, frequently breaking into guffaws or chuckles as he warms to a subject.