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...bullet from Amiel's revolver struck one of his pupils, Alain Rolland, 16, in the back of the head and killed him. Standing trial in Perpignan's sunlit Palais de Justice, Amiel was asked why he did not fire into the air. "It goes without saying," he answered, "that I regret not having fired in the air." Teacher Amiel refused to make excuses, would not plead overwork at the end of the term, nervous strain in trying to pay for his new house, harassment by the students. He said sternly: "A teacher can never have sufficient provocation...
PRIX MEDICIS. The head of this prize committee was Novelist Alain (The Voyeur) Robbe-Grillet, and the winner was one of Robbe-Grillet's disciples in the school of "New Realism" (TIME, Oct. 13), which stresses objects and description rather than people and motivation. Winner Claude Ollier's La Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered...
...VOYEUR, by Alain Robbe-Grillet (219 pp.; Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75), is based on the author's notion that "the world is neither significant nor absurd. It is. That is the most remarkable thing about it." Proceeding from this Istentialist view, Author Robbe-Grillet, hero of Europe's avant-garde critics, has written a sort of whodunit in which the question of whodunit is never answered. To a French offshore island comes Mathias, a watch salesman. Little is told about him, but it is soon plain that he is close to insanity and that his special aberration...
...program were Mozart's Fantasia in F-minor, K. 608; and Handel's Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, in which Biggs failed to interpret properly the "French style" of the first movement. The best playing of the evening came in the sole modern work. Litanies, by Jehan Alain, tragically killed at 29 during the second World...
...Realists. Madame Sarraute, the Russian-born wife of a Paris lawyer, has been acclaimed a leader of a group called the New Realists, who urge a new kind of objectivity, which is at once both more detached and more intense. "In this future universe of the novel," says Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, the group's titular leader, "gestures and objects will be 'there,' before being 'something'; and they will still be there afterwards, hard, unalterable, eternally present, mocking their own meaning . . . No longer will objects be merely vague reflections of the hero's vague...