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 ...

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 ...

The "nouveau roman" was identified by the literary critic Emile Henriot in a 1957 Le Monde essay shortly before the oncoming "nouvelle vague" was heralded by Françoise Giroud in L'Express.

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, ...

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 ...