An eerie meditation on memory and falsified love, 1961’s Last Year at Marienbad captured the world’s imagination. It brought the late Alain Robbe-Grillet’s name to prominence, assuring him a place in ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, a novelist and filmmaker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France's most important avant-garde writers, died Feb. 18 at Caen University Hospital in western ...

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 Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend.

I should have felt grief at the news of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s death last week. Instead I recognized in myself only confusing relief. He was a great champion for the innovative novel, so in a way I owe ...

The "nouveau roman" was identified by the literary critic Emile Henriot in a 1957 Le Monde essay shortly before the oncoming "nouvelle vague" was heralded by Françoise Giroud in L'Express.

An often highly misunderstood filmmaker, Alain Robbe-Grillet has explored the same shadowy realms of eroticized surrealism that his kindred spirit, fellow director Walerian Borowczyk, has.

An agronomist who specialised in diseases affecting tropical fruit, Alain Robbe-Grillet might once have seemed an unlikely candidate for the esteemed heights of the Académie francaise. It wasn't until ...

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The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 25 2008 Alain Robbe-Grillet's last film was C'est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle, made in 2006, ...

PARIS — Alain Robbe-Grillet has been a hair in the soup of France’s stodgy intellectual establishment ever since he burst onto the literary scene in the Fifties as the ringleader of the “Nouveau Roman ...