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Name: Robert Pinget  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 19th July 1919
   
Place of Birth: Genève, Switzerland
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19, 1919 - Tours, August 25, 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several difficult novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers.

A translation of one of his best known works, The Inquisitory (1962), was recently republished by the Dalkey Archive Press.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Entre Fantoine et Agapa, (Jarnac, Ed. Tour de Feu, 1951), Ed. de Minuit (tr. Between Fantoine and Agapa, 1982)
  • Mahu ou le matériau, (Paris, Robert Laffont, 1952), Ed. de Minuit (tr. Mahu of The Material, 1966, 2005)
  • Le Renard et la boussole, (Paris, Gallimard, 1953), Ed. de Minuit
  • Graal flibuste, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1956
  • Baga, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1958 (tr. Baga, 1984)
  • Lettre morte, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
  • La Manivelle, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1960
  • Clope au dossier, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
  • Ici ou ailleurs, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
  • Architruc, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
  • L'Hypothèse, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
  • Le Fiston, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
  • L'Inquisitoire, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1962 (tr. The Inquisitory, 1982, 2003)
  • Autour de Mortin, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1965
  • Quelqu'un, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1965 (tr. Someone, 1984)
  • Le Libera, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1968 (tr. The Libera Me Domine, 1978)
  • Passacaille, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1969 (tr. Passacaglia, 1978)
  • Identité, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1971
  • Abel et Bela, Ed. de Minuit, 1971, (Acte Sud, coll. "Répliques", 1992) (tr. Abel and Bela, 1987)
  • Fable, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1971 (tr. Fable, 1980)
  • Paralchimie, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1973
  • Nuit, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1973
  • Cette Voix, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1975 (tr. That Voice, 1982)
  • L'Apocryphe, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1980 (tr. The Apocrypha, 1986)
  • Monsieur Songe, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1982 (tr. Monsieur Songe, 1988)
  • Le Harnais, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1984
  • Charrue, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1985
  • Un Testament bizarre, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1986 (tr. A Bizarre Will, 1989)
  • L'Ennemi, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1987 (tr. The Enemy, 1991)
  • Du Nerf, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1990 (tr. Be Brave, 1994)
  • Cette Chose, de Robert Pinget et Jean Deyrolle, Paris, Deyrolle éditeur, (1967), 1990
  • Théo ou le temps neuf, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1991 (tr. Theo or The New Era, 1994)
  • L'Affaire Ducreux et autres textes, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1995
  • Tâches d'encre, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1997 (tr. Traces of Ink, 2000)

Criticism in English

  • Robert Pinget: The Novel as Quest, by Robert Henkels, 1977

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