A classic ... a little short

Marthe Robert's thesis in this book is as effective as simple: write a novel would relate to what Freud called in a famous article on "family romance", ie fall of a dream on his own origin. Dreaming can be fanciful or completely, or integrated with real (in this case, it corresponds to the second stage, oedipal, the family romance). Where two ways to write novels.

From this hypothesis, which is the subject of the first part, rather short, the author runs a few great novels. The book is very clear, written hastily, but the starting point (which is also the end point, since the readings taken serve to corroborate) is a bit too large for the purpose really do fly. The psychobiographical approach - that underlies the book without really being assumed to the end - is perhaps not the most illuminating way of speaking text (if it is true that it keeps all His truth concerning the creation). In short, a nice book, but limited in scope.