Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writer / Filmmaker
Alain Robbe-Grillet is the founder of the movement known as Nouveau Roman ("new novel"), which was part of the French New Wave in literature and film in the 1950s. Because his novels and films avoid conventional narrative structure and character development, they are sometimes called "anti-novels." Robbe-Grillet's work has been praised by some critics as daring and challenging, and dismissed by others as just plain confusing. Though primarily known as a novelist, he is also famous for his screenplay to the Alain Resnais film L'Année Derniére á Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad, 1961). His novels include Le Voyeur (1955), La jalousie (1965) and Djinn (1981), and his films include The Immortal One (1963), Trans-Europe-Express (1966) and La Belle Captive (1983, also known as The Beautiful Prisoner).Other French filmmakers of Robbe-Grillet's era included Jean-Luc Godard and Roger Vadim.
Blog posts mentioning Alain Robbe-Grillet:
The Anti-Novelist Speaks
Four Good Links
Robbe-Grillet Bibliography
Collection of info on his work in several media
Last Year at Marienbad Analysis
One man's opinion about what the heck is going on in that movie
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Biographical profile from the Books and Writers site
Bookforum Interview
From 2003, with Robbe-Grillet's revealing comments on books, fame and marriage
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Best Known As
The "anti-novel" guy who wrote the film Last Year at Marienbad
