ROBBE-GRILLET ET LE MYTHE DU LABYRINTHE : UNE LECTURE DE L’IMAGINAIRE URBAIN DANS « LES GOMMES »
ROBBE-GRILLET AND THE MYTH OF THE LABYRINTH: A READING OF THE URBAN IMAGINARY IN "LES GOMMES"

Summary/Abstract: The imagined labyrinthine architecture of the city in Les Gommes of Alain Robbe-Grillet is a space of waiting, abandonment, and loss, that itself reflects the subtleties of the narrative structure, puts both the protagonist and the reader in a state of permanent doubt. Just like Wallas, who continues to quibble on his improbable itinerary, to get lost in a maze of streets where there are no landmarks (even if he follows the map of the city), the reader goes round and round in narrative labyrinths, retraces his steps, becoming ipso facto skeptical of what he reads. In fact, it seems that Alain Robbe-Grillet, through the urban imaginary, questions a number of acquired opinions which condition our understanding of the world, especially the ideological omnipotence of the Myth. This being the case, the aim of our paper is to study the architecture of the urban imaginary in Les Gommes by questioning on the one hand the idea of the labyrinth as a support of postmodern reflection, in the other, the urban imaginary as a subterfuge that serves to unmask the artificiality of the myth, to demystify the hegemony of the representative content.

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