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Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008)

Writer | Director | Actor

Born in Brest in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945, and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France. Then at age thirty, he decided to change the direction of his career and to concentrate on the thorny problem of literature... See full bio »

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in Brest, Finistère, Bretagne, France

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(age 85) in Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
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2010 Campana de la noche (short) (story)
 
2006 Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle)
 
1995 The Blue Villa (dialogue / screenplay)
 
1994 Taxandria (script)
 
1983 La belle captive (written by)
 
1976 Centre Play (TV series)
– In the Labyrinth (1976) (novel "Dans le labyrinthe")
 
1975 Playing with Fire (written by)
 
1974 Successive Slidings of Pleasure (written by)
 
1972 La Jalousie (TV movie)
 
1971 N. a pris les dés...
 
1970 Eden and After
 
1969 The Erasers (novel)
 
1968 L'homme qui ment (writer)
 
1967 Trans-Europ-Express
 
1964 Encounter with Fritz Lang (short)
 
1963 L'immortelle (writer)
 
1961 Last Year at Marienbad (scenario and dialogue)
 
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1999 Marcel Proust's Time Regained
Goncourt
 
1974 Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Un passant
 
1968 Je t'aime, je t'aime
L'attaché de presse (uncredited)
 
1967 Trans-Europ-Express
Jean the Director
 
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1978 Guerres civiles en France (technical advisor)
 
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2009 La traversée du désir (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Ce soir (ou jamais!) (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 24 October 2007 (2007) … Himself
 
2005 Campus, le magazine de l'écrit (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Comment évoquer la colonisation? (2005) … Himself
 
1998 French Love (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Arena (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Dear Antonioni (1997) … Himself
 
1985 Un film (autoportrait)
Himself
 
1980 Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1974 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1964 Cinéastes de notre temps (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Alain Robbe-Grillet … Himself
 
1963 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 13 April 1963 (1963) … Himself
 
1957 Lecture pour tous (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 19 June 1957 (1957) … Himself
 
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2009 Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (video documentary short)
 
2003 The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Novel. "La Maison de Rendezvous." New York: Grove Press, 1966

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Wrote an original screenplay for Michelangelo Antonioni entitled "La fortresse" (The Fortress); the movie was never made. See more »

Trademark:

His "new novel" style disregarded traditional literary devices such as plot and chronological narrative; objects are more significant than human actions. See more »

Star Sign:

Leo