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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.
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.
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.
Feb 18, 2008 · PARIS — Alain Robbe-Grillet, a "new novelist" and filmmaker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France's most important avant-garde writers, died Monday, hospital officials ...
Alain Robbe-Grillet. Filmmaker/Writer. 17 August 1922 to 18 February 2008. An influential French novelist, Robbe-Grillet’s most enduring cinematic success was his screenplay for Last Year At Marienbad (1961).
