He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers usually unconnected with the cinema, such as Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Semprún.

Robbe-Grillet wrote a screenplay which was very detailed, specifying not only the décor and gestures but also the placement and movement of the camera and the sequencing of shots in the editing.

However, it was nominated for the 1963 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay ( Alain Robbe-Grillet ) and it was also nominated for a Hugo Award as Best Dramatic Presentation.

Jean-Pierre Melville, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras are also associated with the group.

In addition, Robbe-Grillet also led the Centre for Sociology of Literature ( Centre de sociologie de la littérature ) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1980 to 1988.

The nouveau roman style also left its mark on screen as writers Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet became involved with the Left Bank film movement ( often labelled as part of the French new wave ).

She was also known as a translator from French, in particular of works by Robbe-Grillet.

The French novel from the 1950s on went through a similar experimentation in the group of writers published by " Les Éditions de Minuit ", a French publisher ; this " Nouveau roman " (" new novel "), associated with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Michel Butor, Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, also abandoned traditional plot, voice, characters and psychology.

Robbe-Grillet wrote his first novel A Regicide ( Un Régicide ) in 1949, but it was rejected by Gallimard, a major French publishing house, and only later published with minor corrections by his lifelong publisher Les Editions de Minuit in 1978.

It was mostly praised by film critics, although Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote an unfavorable review and stated " I didn't like it very much.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Robbe-Grillet, and Barthes expressed admiration for him.

Part of the fascination of his writing is the way it combines the rigorous symmetries that led Roland Barthes to praise him as an epitome of structuralism ( exemplified, for instance, by the architectural scheme of Passage de Milan or the calendrical structure of L ' emploi du temps ) with a lyrical sensibility more akin to Baudelaire than to Robbe-Grillet.

* Alain Robbe-Grillet ( 1922 – 2008 ), writer and filmmaker

Resnais's next film was L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ( Last Year at Marienbad ) ( 1961 ), which he made in collaboration with the novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Resnais is more often associated with a ' Left Bank group ' of writers and filmmakers who included Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet ( with all of whom he collaborated in the earlier part of his career ).

L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ( released in the USA as Last Year At Marienbad and in the UK as Last Year in Marienbad ) is a 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

L ' Année dernière à Marienbad was created out of an unusual collaboration between its writer Alain Robbe-Grillet and its director Alain Resnais.

Robbe-Grillet described its basis: " Alain Resnais and I were able to collaborate only because we had seen the film in the same way from the start, and not just in the same general outlines but exactly, in the construction of the least detail as in its total architecture.

* Robbe-Grillet, Alain.

The first phase comprises abstract modernist works influenced by writers such as Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet and James Joyce.

* Alain Robbe-Grillet – La reprise

He is widely credited with being one of main authors of the important " Manifesto of the 121 ", named after the number of its signatories, who included Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Antelme, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, René Char, Henri Lefebvre, Alain Resnais, Simone Signoret and others, which supported the rights of conscripts to refuse the draft in Algeria.

Despite similarities to the French New Wave, films by Varda belonged more precisely to the complementary Rive Gauche ( Left Bank ) cinema movement, along with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Cayrol and Henri Colpi.

Other authors published include Monique Wittig, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras and Robert Pinget.

* Alain Robbe-Grillet

Shaped in part by the French " nouveau roman " of writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French " La Nouvelle Vague " cinema of Godard and Truffaut, and Latin American “ Boom ,” Spanish novelists and poets, beginning perhaps with Luis Martín Santos's novel, Tiempo de silencio ( 1961 ), returned to the restless literary experimentation last seen in Spanish letters in the early 1930s.

Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008 ) was a French writer and filmmaker.

Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32.

Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest, ( Finistère, France ) to a family of engineers and scientists.

After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the film attracted great attention and provoked many divergent interpretations of how it should be understood, encouraged by interviews in which Robbe-Grillet and Resnais themselves appeared to give conflicting explanations of the film.

Controversy was fuelled when Robbe-Grillet and Resnais appeared to give contradictory answers to the question whether the man and woman had actually met at Marienbad last year or not ; this was used as a means of attacking the film by those who disliked it.

Robbe-Grillet then published his screenplay, illustrated by shots from the film, as a " ciné-roman " ( ciné-novel ).

Others have heeded, at least as a starting point, the indications given by Robbe-Grillet in the introduction to his screenplay: " Two attitudes are then possible: either the spectator will try to reconstitute some ' Cartesian ' scheme-the most linear, the most rational he can devise-and this spectator will certainly find the film difficult if not incomprehensible ; or else the spectator will let himself be carried along by the extraordinary images in front of him [...] and to this spectator, the film will seem the easiest he has ever seen: a film addressed exclusively to his sensibility, to his faculties of sight, hearing, feeling.

Robbe-Grillet offered a further suggestion of how one might view the work: " The whole film, as a matter of fact, is the story of a persuading persuasion ": it deals with a reality which the hero creates out of his own vision, out of his own words.

The film is based upon the classic 1956 sadomasochistic novel L ' Image, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg.

He has translated several books of French origin, including Virginie Despentes ' novel Baise Moi ( which was later adapted into a controversial film ); the writers Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Guyotat, Sollers, Benoît Duteurtre, Grégoire Bouillier, Philippe Djian, Martin Page and Nelly Arcan ; and, though it is quite far away from his usual subject matter, the autobiography of Céline Dion.

He directed one feature film ‚ " Le Dernier plan " ( The Last Shot )‚ and long conversations with Alain Robbe-Grillet.

In 1945, Robbe-Grillet completed his diploma at the National Institute of Agronomy.

From 1971 to 1995, Robbe-Grillet was a professor at New York University, lecturing on his own novels.

** In the commentary section of the Sideways DVD, Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church discuss the Robbe-Grillet reference during the scene when Miles is explaining his novel to Maya in ( what Church dubs ) the " lair of the white grape.

" When the line is mentioned Church says: " I love that -- Robbe-Grillet.

is: Alain Robbe-Grillet

He is sometimes therefore grouped with Alain Robbe-Grillet, or associated with other British experimentalists: Anthony Burgess, Alan Burns, Angela Carter, B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Stefan Themerson and Eva Figes.

La Reprise is a French novel in the Nouveau roman style by Alain Robbe-Grillet published in 2001 by Les Éditions de Minuit.

Catherine Robbe-Grillet ( née Rstakian ; born 1930 ) is a French theatre and cinema actress and photographer who has published BDSM-related writings under the pseudonyms Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg.

The Image ( or in French " L ' Image ") is a classic 1956 sadomasochistic erotic novel, written by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and published under the pseudonym of Jean de Berg by éditions de Minuit in 1956.