Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Vol. 8) - Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922–
French novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and critic, Robbe-Grillet is the leading exponent of the New Novel in France. His style has been described as cinematic: it depicts reality in rapidly changing scenes, revealing the flow of mental rather than physical life. He rejects the idea of the writer as social critic, maintaining that his work is a "search" and not an expression of social attitudes. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
With Alain Robbe-Grillet, fictional perspective takes the final step prepared for by Sartre and Camus of subordinating the entire spatio-temporal field to its trompe-l'oeil aspects. Robbe-Grillet's fictional world presents a single microcosmic enigma, a labyrinth in which as many readers are led astray as successfully enter and find an exit. In Dans le Labyrinthe Robbe-Grillet introduces and constantly maintains an...
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