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| Name: |
Alain Robbe-Grillet | | Birth Date: |
1922 | | Place of Birth: |
Brest, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, agronomist, screenwriter |
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 Biography of Alain Robbe-Grillet
908 words, approx. 3 pages
 The French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (born 1922) achieved fame for his innovative techniques in writing fiction. Influential in avant-garde Paris intellectual circles, his controversial critical theories regarding the concept of the modern novel... summary from source:
 Biography of Alain Robbe-Grillet
10,321 words, approx. 34 pages
 Born in Brest, in Brittany, on 18 August 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet, the most influential French writer of his generation, is the son of Gaston Robbe-Grillet, owner of a small manufacturing business (himself the son of a school-teacher) and of Yvonne... 
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 The Independent - London Alain Robbe-grillet
02/19/2008: 914 words, approx. 3 pages Leading 'new novelist' and film-maker who through his work sought to undo the conventions of fiction The creation of the nouveau roman, or "new novel", in the 1950s was the intellectual event in France of those years. The five or six writers who... summary from source:
World Literature Today Alain Robbe-Grillet. La reprise.
03/22/2002: 508 words, approx. 2 pages Paris. Minuit. 2001. 253 pages 15.09 [euro]. ISBN 2-7073-1756-X IN HIS 1956 ESSAY "A Future for the New Novel," Alain Robbe-Grillet famously argued for a break from the stagnant yet "sacrosanct" novelistic tradition of "psychological, social, or functional" signification. In his latest... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Resnais Returns
1/15/2008: 775 words, approx. 3 pagesAlain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time in decades at Film Forum for two weeks from Jan. 18 through Jan. 31 in a new 35mm Scope print. It was Resnais’ second feature-length...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ben Stoltzfus
6,513 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Stoltzfus examines the artistic, literary, and theoretical influences behind the creative process in Robbe-Grillet's fiction. “According to Robbe-Grillet,” writes Stoltzfus, “every fiction is the story of a gamesman in a quicksand world who is continuously reinventing himself.”
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Critical Essay by Yoseph Milman
5,895 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Milman provides analysis of Robbe-Grillet's metaphysical concerns and narrative presentation in the short story “La Plage.” Milman notes strong similarities between Robbe-Grillet's “absurd view of man” and the philosophical tenets of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Critical Essay by Raylene Ramsay
5,615 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Ramsay examines Robbe-Grillet's pastiche of autobiography, myth, memory, literary text, and history in Les Derniers Jours de Corinthe. According to Ramsay, “The text sets out to consciously stage, deconstruct, indeed to ‘ruin,’ both its own generative mechanisms and the monsters and the sirens lurking in the writer's subconscious.”
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