Robert Pinget (19 July 1919 – 25 August 1997) was an avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. He was also associated with the nouveau roman movement.
Robert Pinget | |
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Born | Geneva, Switzerland | 19 July 1919
Died | 25 August 1997 Tours, France | (aged 78)
Literary movement | Nouveau roman |
Notable works | The Inquisitory |
In 1962, Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six set eleven of Pinget's poems in a song cycle entitled "Pancarte pour Une Porte D'Entrée" (roughly translated as "Handbill for an Entrance") for medium voice and piano, commissioned by the American Soprano and Arts Patron Alice Swanson Esty.
A translation of one of his best known works, The Inquisitory (1962), was republished by the Dalkey Archive Press in 2003.