"Alain Robbe-Grillet [Obituary]." DAILY TELEGRAPH February 19, 2008.

Alain Robbe-Grillet, who died on Monday aged 85 was the leading light of the 'new novel' in post-war France, as well as a film director and avant-garde critic whose theories were as influential as his novels. The mere mention of the author's name was enough to suggest hyper-modernity. When John Fowles's narrator in The French Lieutenant's Woman announces, "I live in the age of Robbe-Grillet," he is indicating that the book will be unconventional. The world of the Robbe-Grillet novel is anxious and unheroic. There is usually a dark plot, a mystery, an obsessive chase or detective quest, but resolutions are shrouded in ambiguity and the reader is left to piece things together as best he can. The novels are freighted with a sense of trauma which is left unexplained, flickering at the edges of consciousness. . . .

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See also:

• http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2008/02/18/l-ecrivain-alain-robbe-grillet-est-mort_1012928_3382.html;
• http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/02/19/03005-20080219ARTFIG00371-robbe-grillet-le-provocateur-institutionnel-.php;
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/books/19robbe-grillet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin;
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3392633.ece;
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alain-robbegrillet-leading-new-novelist-and-filmmaker-who-through-his-work-sought-to-undo-the-conventions-of-fiction-783983.html.