This particular exemplar could claim both Piers Anthony's Macroscope (1969) and Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table (1997) as antecedents from the sci-fi realm, but also Jose Luis Borges' Ficciones (1944) and Alain
Robbe-Grillet's Instantanes (1962) from the lit-fic sphere.
But the book also carries with it an eastern European flavor as written by someone like Alain
Robbe-Grillet or, more recently, Mathias Enard.
For instance, in a kind of proto-newsfeed, during the height of their activities members would use standard mail to circulate "Thoughts of the Month," a series of inspirational images or quotes from the likes of Samuel Beckett, Allan Kaprow, Lao Tzu, or Alain
Robbe-Grillet.
fiction, Alain
Robbe-Grillet's novel Jealousy, reader responses to literary fiction, The Sopranos, controlling fictional narrators in literature and film, metalepsis, and lyric poetry; performative art forms like drama, theatre, opera, and classical music; and games, with discussion of ethics and morality in role-playing games, agency and volition in Second Life, and prop perspectives in computer games.
Robbe-Grillet no se intereso en la realidad psicologica en si, sino en su aspecto fenomenico.
Mann harbors a particular fondness for the Left Bank Cinema group of filmmakers that included Alain Resnais, Alain
Robbe-Grillet and Chris Marker.
Ainsi que le disait Alain
Robbe-grillet : [beaucoup moins que]le roman doit etre delivre de toute interpretation prealable[beaucoup plus grand que].