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Alain Robbe-Grillet Biography
Writer / Filmmaker
Alain Robbe-Grillet was the founder of the movement known as Nouveau Roman ("new novel"), a part of the French New Wave in literature and film in the 1950s. Because his novels and films avoid conventional narrative structure and character development, they are sometimes called "anti-novels." Robbe-Grillet's work has been praised by some critics as daring and challenging, and dismissed by others as just plain confusing. Though primarily known as a novelist, he was also famous for his screenplay to the Alain Resnais film L'Année Derniére á Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad, 1961). His novels include Le Voyeur (1955), La jalousie (1965) and Djinn (1981), and his films include The Immortal One (1963), Trans-Europe-Express (1966) and La Belle Captive (1983, also known as The Beautiful Prisoner).
Other French filmmakers of Robbe-Grillet's era included Jean-Luc Godard and Roger Vadim.
Blog posts mentioning Alain Robbe-Grillet:
Four Good Links
Robbe-Grillet Bibliography
Collection of info on his work in several media
Robbe-Grillet Obituary
From the U.K.'s Guardian
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Biographical profile from the Books and Writers site
Bookforum Interview
From 2003, with Robbe-Grillet's revealing comments on books, fame and marriage
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
18 February 2008
(age 85)
Best Known As
The "anti-novel" guy who wrote the film Last Year at Marienbad