Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Robbe-Grillet, Alain ( 1922 – ),French novelist and leading proponent of the nouveau roman , also a screenwriter and film-maker, born in Brest. In Les Gommes ( 1953 ), the erasers of the title represent the erasure of one version of events and its replacement by another. The title of Le Voyeur ( 1955 ) refers equally to author, narrator, and reader. In La Jalousie ( 1957 ) the narrator allows his presence to be inferred only from significant details in the descriptive passages. L'Année dernière à Marienbad ( 1961 ), a ciné-roman, is the screenplay for Alain Resnais's landmark film. Robbe-Grillet's first novel, Un régicide, written in 1949 but not published until 1978 , has yet to appear in English; it is one of his most accessible and enjoyable books, while no less ‘important’ than the more challenging novels of the 1970s, including Topologie d'une cité...
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