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Alain Robbe-Grillet ( French: [alɛ̃ ʁɔb ɡʁijɛ]; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman ( lit. 'new novel') trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon.
Alain Robbe-Grillet (born Aug. 18, 1922, Brest, France—died Feb. 18, 2008, Caen) was a representative writer and leading theoretician of the nouveau roman (“new novel”), the French “anti-novel” that emerged in the 1950s. He was also a screenwriter and film director.
Alain Robbe-Grillet. Writer: Un bruit qui rend fou. Born in Brest, France, in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945 and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France.
When in Paris, Alain Robbe-Grillet lives in a third-floor apartment in an affluent residential area on the edge of the city, across the street from the woods of the Bois de Boulogne. You cross two courtyards to reach his building, where the spacious sitting-room overlooks flower-beds and pots.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, né le 18 août 1922 à Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon ( Finistère) 1 et mort le 18 février 2008 à Caen ( Calvados ), est un romancier et cinéaste français. Considéré, avec Nathalie Sarraute, comme le chef de file du nouveau roman, il a été élu à l' Académie française le 25 mars 2004, sans y être reçu.
Feb 24, 2008 · Starting in the 1950s, the novelist, filmmaker and literary theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died last week at 85, had a profound impact on international taste.
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated with the trend of the Nouveau Roman.
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Oct 6, 2014 · In 1986 Alain Robbe-Grillet, accompanied by his wife Catherine, visited Australia as guest of the cultural institute Alliance Francaise to give a series of lectures and talks in a number of selected cities, most prominently Melbourne and Sydney.
Feb 19, 2008 · Robbe-Grillet's career was built on a sly and amusing paradox: of using fiction over and over again to undo the conventions of fiction. But how cleverly and engagingly...
Known as the first “cubist” novelist and a “chosist,” for his obsessive focus on inanimate objects ( chose is the French word for “thing”), Robbe-Grillet initially described the nouveau roman and became the leading exponent of the New Wave in contemporary French literature.
