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Robbe-Grillet

American  
[rawb-gree-ye] / rɔb griˈjɛ /

noun

  1. Alain 1922–2008, French writer.


Robbe-Grillet British  
/ rɔbɡrijɛ /

noun

  1. Alain (alɛ̃).1922–2008, French novelist and screenwriter. Author of The Voyeur (1955), Jealousy (1957), and Djinn (1981): he was one of the leading practitioners of the antinovel

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He appeared in experimental films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, better known for his avant-garde literature.

From Washington Post Jun. 17, 2022

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

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

During her Paris summers she acquired a deeper knowledge of the work of Godard, Bresson, Genet, Lévi-Strauss, Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute—the people she would write about in “Against Interpretation.”

From The New Yorker Feb. 28, 2000

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