I should have felt grief at the news of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s death last week. Instead I recognized in myself only confusing relief. He was a great champion for the innovative novel, so in a way I owe ...

David Shields recently dismissed most contemporary novels as "antediluvian texts" that "could have been written by Flaubert 150 years ago". "In no way," claimed the author of Reality Hunger, "do they ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 25 2008 Alain Robbe-Grillet's last film was C'est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle, made in 2006, ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet, a “new novelist” and filmmaker who rejected conventional storytelling and was one of France’s most important avant-garde writers, died Monday, hospital officials said. He was 85.

Alain Robbe-Grillet, known as the enfant terrible of the French literary establishment, has died at age 85. Robbe-Grillet, who pioneered a style in the 1950s and 1960s called the "new novel," died ...

An agronomist who specialised in diseases affecting tropical fruit, Alain Robbe-Grillet might once have seemed an unlikely candidate for the esteemed heights of the Académie francaise. It wasn't until ...

The creation of the nouveau roman, or "new novel", in the 1950s was the intellectual event in France of those years. The five or six writers who helped in it were never a school, but they thought ...

Back in the news for the first time in years, Robbe-Grillet had a lot of explaining to do. Always a forceful spokesman for his own work, he took up the task with his usual gusto, describing Un Roman ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet: refused to wear the prescribed outfit on joining Académie Française: 'it is I who am honouring them' Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died on Monday aged 85 was the leading light of the ...

PARIS — Alain Robbe-Grillet has been a hair in the soup of France’s stodgy intellectual establishment ever since he burst onto the literary scene in the Fifties as the ringleader of the “Nouveau Roman ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (new novel) trend.