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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

French1922 – 2008Fiction

French author and leading theorist of the Nouveau Roman who rejected psychological depth and traditional storytelling in favor of objective description. The Voyeur and Jealousy are key texts of French literary modernism.

Works

  • The VoyeurExperimental novel about a salesman witnessing a possible crime on an island→
  • JealousyExperimental novel depicting marital jealousy and emotional corruption in a colonial colony→
  • In the LabyrinthExperimental novel of a soldier lost in an abstract urban labyrinth→
  • The ErasersExperimental novel of a detective investigating a crime that may not exist→
  • Last Year at MarienbadNovel adapted into film depicting a year's obsessive encounter at a luxurious resort→

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