Alain Robbe-Grillet, a “new novelist” and filmmaker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France’s most important avant-garde writers, died yesterday at a Caen, France, hospital. He ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of France’s most unconventional and controversial authors, screenwriters and film directors of the post-war era, died in the western French city of Caen on February 18. He was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Repetition, by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Translated by Richard Howard. Grove Press. 168 pages. $23. Alain Robbe-Grillet’s latest novel, Repetition, is just that: a repetition, with variations, of his ...

PARIS – Alain Robbe-Grillet, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar “new novel” movement in France, died Monday. He was 85. Robbe-Grillet died ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet, known as the enfant terrible of the French literary establishment, has died at age 85. Robbe-Grillet, who pioneered a style in the 1950s and 1960s called the "new novel," died ...

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