Robbe-Grillet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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His projects included modern and classic French books, from the memoirs of Charles de Gaulle to experimental novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet to the philosophy of Howard’s friend Roland Barthes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Mr. Calder also helped introduce British readers to continental writers including Eugene Ionesco, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and championed edgy Americans, publishing Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” and William S. Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2018
I am unconvinced that the only man on the planet with horrifying fantasies was Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2014
I couldn’t help thinking of John Ashbery’s mid-career poetry, for example, or the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, both of which are filled with such mystifying gaps between object and description.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2013
Given his stylistic experimentation, comparisons may just as easily be made to the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Anthony Burgess, particularly in the latter’s prescient, channel-surfing 1982 novel “The End of the World News.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2011
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