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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROBBE-GRILLET

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROBBE-GRILLET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROBBE-GRILLET

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WHAT DOES ROBBE-GRILLET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet

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 trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He was married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet.

Definition of Robbe-Grillet in the English dictionary

The definition of Robbe-Grillet in the dictionary is Alain.1922–2008, French novelist and screenwriter. Author of The Voyeur, Jealousy, and Djinn : he was one of the leading practitioners of the antinovel.

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罗伯 - 格里耶
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROBBE-GRILLET»

Discover the use of Robbe-Grillet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Robbe-Grillet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Erasers
The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1964
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For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of contemporary fiction. This is a work of immense importance for any discussions of the history of the novel and for contemporary thinking about the future of fiction.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1989
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Snapshots
This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent Robbe-Grillet's most accessible fiction.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1995
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Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet
In addition Smith evaluates the sado-erotic imagery of Robbe-Grillet's middle and late novels as a metaphorical play with textual and social conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Roch C. Smith, 2000
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Why I Love Barthes
This is a unique testimony to one of the most important literary friendships of our time.
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Olivier Corpet, Roland Barthes, 2011
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The Voyeur
Mathias, the voyeur, returns to the island of his birth and wanders about for several days. When a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned, murder is suspected. Did Mathias do it?
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1989
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Djinn ; And, La Maison de Rendez-vous
A young man follows an androgynous girl into a clandestine world where he experiences doubts about his own identity, and Lady Ava's Blue Villa in Hong Kong becomes the center of crime, intrigue, and passion
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1987
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Robbe-Grillet and Modernity: Science, Sexuality, and Subversion
Featuring two first-person interviews with the major contemporary French man of letters, this work investigates the relationships between Alain Robbe-Grillet's experimental writing (novels, picto-novels, auto-fictions, films, and essays) ...
Raylene L. Ramsay, 1992
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Repetition: A Novel
Readers of Robbe-Grillet’s novel Erasers will recognize, as the secret agent of Repetition slowly becomes aware that he was in Berlin before—as a child, with his mother, perhaps looking for his father—the same allusions to bits and ...
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 2007
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The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain ...
Along with interviews available nowhere else, this book includes a gallery of illustrations from Robbe-Grillet’s films as well as a filmography and bibliography of work by and about Robbe-Grillet.
Anthony N. Fragola, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROBBE-GRILLET»

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The Forgotten Reveals That Alain Robbe-Grillet's 'The Man Who …
NEW YORK - MAY 11: French avant-garde novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet makes stands on stage before receiving a honorary doctorate at New York ... «Realty Today, Jul 15»
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SXSW Film Review: The Ceremony: A lush, articulate lens on …
These are based on the detail-oriented fantasies found in Robbe-Grillet's writings and practice: Two elegantly clad women on all fours balance 19th-century ... «Austin Chronicle, Mar 15»
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'La Belle Captive' Is a Beautiful Nightmare
An often highly misunderstood filmmaker, Alain Robbe-Grillet has explored the same shadowy realms of eroticized surrealism that his kindred spirit fellow ... «PopMatters, Feb 15»
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'50 Shades of Grey is much too soft, I only do REAL bondage': 83 …
Madame Robbe-Grillet comes across as a charming octogenarian – the kind anybody would love as a granny – but is known to have pierced and cut people, ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
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The Films of Trans-Europ Kinkmaster Alain Robbe-Grillet Now …
Robbe-Grillet, whose first six films are now readily available on disc from Kino and streaming at Fandor, takes the metatext liberations of Godard to a Duck ... «Village Voice, Sep 14»
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Translating a Novel of Sadism
“A Sentimental Novel,” the final published work of the novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, appeared in France four months before his death, in 2008, and in ... «The New Yorker, Sep 14»
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(Not So) Sex Obsessed: 'Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1963-74'
With this collection covering Robbe-Grillet's directorial career from 1963-74, the first film of the set is 1963's L'Immortelle, a fascinating portrait of a man obsessed ... «PopMatters, Sep 14»
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Alain Robbe-Grillet Six Films 1963-1974
Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Renais' 'Last Year In Marienbad', Alain Robbe-Grillet was also the leading novelist of the French nouveau roman ... «Film News, Jul 14»
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Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1963-74 – Philip French on a master …
Both Duras and Robbe-Grillet went on to produce sizeable bodies of work as ... Sadomasochism was far more than a passing interest on Robbe-Grillet's part. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
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The Men Who Play Games in 'The Man Who Lies' and 'Eden and After'
In the interview included as a bonus to his 1968 feature The Man Who Lies, Robbe-Grillet explains that he was invited to make a film in Slovakia with lots of ... «PopMatters, Jul 14»

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