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.

Robbe-Grillet also wrote screenplays, notably for Alain Resnais ' 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, a critical success that is considered to be one of the finest French films of the 1960s.

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

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

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.

In 1963, Robbe-Grillet published For a New Novel ( Pour un Nouveau Roman ), a collection of previously-published theoretical writings concerning the novel.

Robbe-Grillet himself argued that the novel was constructed along the lines of an absent third-person narrator.

* Frédéric Beigbeder refers to Robbe-Grillet in his novel Windows On the World.

* In the movie Sideways, Miles ( Paul Giamatti ) explains to Maya ( Virginia Madsen ) that his unpublished novel " evolves-or devolves-into a kind of a Robbe-Grillet mystery-but ( with ) no real resolution.

** 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.

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.

Alain 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 was not present during the filming.

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.

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.

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.

He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet ( née Rstakian ).

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

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 theatre and the opera.

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

Although Robbe-Grillet was elected to the Académie française in 2004, in his eighties, he never was formally received by the Académie because of disputes regarding the Académie's reception procedures.

It was followed by a number of films written and directed by Robbe-Grillet himself: Trans-Europ-Express ( 1966 ), his two French-Slovak films L ' homme qui ment / Muž, ktorý luže ( The Man Who Lies ) ( 1968 ), L ' Eden et après / Eden a potom ( Eden and After ) ( 1970 ), Glissements progressifs du plaisir ( The Slow Slidings of Pleasure ) ( 1974 ), Le jeu avec le feu ( Playing with Fire ) ( 1975 ), La belle captive ( The Beautiful Captive ) ( 1983 ) and many others.

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

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.

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.

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.

* L ' Image ( 1956 ) by Jean de Berg ( pseudonym of Catherine Robbe-Grillet ).

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.

* The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films ( 2006 ) by Anthony N Fragola, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roch Charles Smith

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.

He began to be rediscovered in the late 1950s, by the Oulipo and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

* August 18-Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist ( died 2008 )

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 ).

Before receiving her degree, Hui studied and did her thesis on the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, a French writer and filmmaker.

Grove published French avant-garde of the era, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugène Ionesco ; most of the American Beats of the 1950s, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg ; and poets associated with Black Mountain and the San Francisco Renaissance such as Robert Duncan.

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.