Robbe-Grillet
Americannoun
noun
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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
Resnais’s technique was so prodigious that he knew no constraints, not even from great and demanding scripts by Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 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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