Marie Redonnet
« following an arrangement not unsuggestive of the fanatic temple of which I am laboriously reconstructing the plan day after day, through repetitions, contradictions, and omissions. »
(Alain Robbe-Grillet, Topology of a Phantom City)
Photograph by John Foley, from the Éditions de Minuit catalog, Winter 1988.
Works
I have included links to the publisher pages for each work when available. Note that Les Éditions de Minuit has published electronic versions of all their editions of Redonnet's books; these are all available on Amazon (via Kindle) in the US, but even better both PDF and epub versions can be purchased for download from Numilog, and Minuit is extremely generous to make both DRM-free. There are electronic versions of a few non-Minuit books available as well.
Links on the French titles lead to pages written by me with more detailed information for that work.
Recommendations: The Triptych is certainly the natural place to start. My personal favorite works are Forever Valley, Rose Mélie Rose and Silsie, which to me form an even more natural triptych. It's especially sad that Silsie has not yet been translated into English as it is a critical link to the later works. I also have a special fondness for L'Accord de paix. In any case everything is fantastic and well worth reading eventually.
Novels
« The story as written up in an article in The Globe starts off like a fairy-tale... »
(Alain Robbe-Grillet, Recollections of the Golden Triangle)
Triptych
(1986) Splendid Hôtel [Minuit] (Hôtel Spendid)
(1987) Forever Valley [Minuit] (Forever Valley)
(1987) Rose Mélie Rose [Minuit] (Rose Mellie Rose)
(2017) Héritières [Le Tripod] (a collection of the three novels in a single volume)
Later Novels
(1992) Candy Story [POL] (Candy Story)
(1994) Nevermore [POL] (Nevermore)
(1996) Villa Rosa [Flohic]
(2000) L'Accord de paix [Grasset]
(2005) Diego [Minuit]
(2016) La Femme au colt 45 [Le Tripod]
(2018) Trio pour un monde égaré [Le Tripod]
Theater
(1988) Tir & Lir [Minuit]
(1989) Mobie-Diq [Minuit]
(1992) Seaside [Minuit]
(1994) Le Cirque Pandor suivi de Fort Gambo [POL]
Other Works
(1985) Le Mort & compagnie [POL] (poésie)
(1986) Doublures [POL] (contes)
(2000) Jean Genet, le poète travesti [Grasset] (essai)