Alain robbe grillet biography death

He was along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated with the trend of the Nouveau Roman, a type of s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Robbe-Grillet, an influential theorist as well as writer of the nouveau roman, published a series of essays on the nature and future of the novel which were later collected in Pour un nouveau roman.

Rejecting many of the established features of the novel to date, Robbe-Grillet regarded many earlier novelists as old-fashioned in their focus on plot, action, narrative, ideas, and character. Instead, he put forward a theory of the novel as focused on objects: the ideal nouveau roman would be an individual version and vision of things, subordinating plot and character to the details of the world rather than enlisting the world in their service.

Joris-Karl Huysmans , 90 years before, had suggested how the novel might be depersonalized; more recently, Franz Kafka had shown that conventional methods of depicting character were not essential; James Joyce had done the same for plot; and absurdist writers had engaged with some of the themes which preoccupied writers of the nouveau roman.

The nouveau roman was an expression of the modern break with tradition, both the artistic and spiritual traditions of "traditional society. The nouveau roman style also left its mark on screen as writers Marguerite Duras and Robbe-Grillet became involved with the Left Bank film movement often labelled as part of the French new wave.

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He was trained as an agricultural engineer. In the years Robbe-Grillet participated in service du travail obligatoire, or national service, in Nuremberg where he worked as a machinist. The initial few months were seen by Robbe-Grillet as something of a holiday, since in between the very rudimentary training he was given to operate the machinery he had free time to go to the theater and the opera.

His first novel The Erasers Les Gommes was published in , after which he dedicated himself full-time to his new occupation. Around the time of his second novel he became a literary advisor for Les Editions de Minuit, occupying this position from until From to Robbe-Grillet was a professor at New York University , lecturing on his own novels.

He died in Caen after succumbing to heart problems [1].

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His writing style has been described as " realist " or "phenomenological" in the Heideggerian sense or "a theory of pure surface. Instead, one slowly pieces together the story and the emotional experience of jealousy in the repetition of descriptions, the attention to odd details, and the breaks in repetitions. Ironically, this method resembles the experience of psychoanalysis in which the deeper unconscious meanings are contained in the flow and disruptions of free associations.