Alain Robbe‑Grillet
Djinn
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1981.
While teaching at New York University, Robbe-Grillet was asked by a colleague, Yvonne Lenard, professor of French at the University of California, to write a didactic and practical text: a novel that would serve as a manual for learning French, on the premise that the pleasure of fiction would help learners understand the language far…
