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, ...

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 ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of France’s most unconventional and controversial authors, screenwriters and film directors of the post-war era, died in the western French city of Caen on February 18. He was ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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: 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 ...

Whether you are drawn to the humor of Ebecho Muslimova, the influential contributions of Lee “Scratch” Perry, or the political narratives of Philip Guston, there is something to inspire every art ...