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Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19, 1919 - Tours, August 25, 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several difficult novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers.

In 1962, Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six set eleven of his 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 Esty

A translation of one of his best known works, The Inquisitory (1962), was recently republished by the Dalkey Archive Press.

• Entre Fantoine et Agapa, (Jarnac, Ed. Tour de Feu, 1951), Ed. de Minuit (tr. Between Fantoine and Agapa, 1982)
• Mahu ou le matériau, (Paris, Robert Laffont, 1952), Ed. de Minuit (tr. Mahu or The Material, 1966, 2005)
• Le Renard et la boussole, (Paris, Gallimard, 1953), Ed. de Minuit
• Graal flibuste, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1956
• Baga, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1958 (tr. Baga, 1984)
• Lettre morte, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
• La Manivelle, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1960
• Clope au dossier, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
• Ici ou ailleurs, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
• Architruc, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
• L'Hypothèse, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
• Le Fiston, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
• L'Inquisitoire, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1962 (tr. The Inquisitory, 1982, 2003)
• Autour de Mortin, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1965
• Quelqu'un, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1965 (tr. Someone, 1984)
• Le Libera, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1968 (tr. The Libera Me Domine, 1978)
• Passacaille, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1969 (tr. Passacaglia, 1978)
• Identité, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1971
• Abel et Bela, Ed. de Minuit, 1971, (Acte Sud, coll. "Répliques", 1992) (tr. Abel and Bela, 1987)
• Fable, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1971 (tr. Fable, 1980)
• Paralchimie, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1973
• Nuit, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1973
• Cette Voix, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1975 (tr. That Voice, 1982)
• L'Apocryphe, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1980 (tr. The Apocrypha, 1986)
• Monsieur Songe, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1982 (tr. Monsieur Songe, 1988)
• Le Harnais, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1984
• Charrue, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1985
• Un Testament bizarre, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1986 (tr. A Bizarre Will, 1989)
• L'Ennemi, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1987 (tr. The Enemy, 1991)
• Du Nerf, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1990 (tr. Be Brave, 1994)
• Cette Chose, de Robert Pinget et Jean Deyrolle, Paris, Deyrolle éditeur, (1967), 1990
• Théo ou le temps neuf, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1991 (tr. Theo or The New Era, 1994)
• L'Affaire Ducreux et autres textes, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1995
• Tâches d'encre, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1997 (tr. Traces of Ink, 2000)

• Robert Pinget: The Novel as Quest, by Robert Henkels, 1977

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