![]() ![]() His 1955 effort, Le Voyeur, about a travelling watch salesman who returns to the island of his youth with a desperate goal, was also met with critical praise. It tells the story of a murder committed by the detective who has come to investigate it. After his stirring debut, Robbe-Grillet would go on to publish a dozen books in a 20-year period. His 1953 debut novel, Les Gommes ( The Erasers), is considered one of his most celebrated works. Readers must piece together the narrative. In fact, nothing much happens in his novels, but a lot is either imagined or thought about. ![]() The style dispensed with traditional literary devices such as chronology, narrative and plot instead, focusing on objects rather than human action. Robbe-Grillet is best known for unorthodox narratives and created the "nouveau roman" in a series of essays in the 1950s. He studied agricultural engineering, and worked as a statistician and agronomist before landing in the literary realm. The writer also worked in film, both as a screenwriter and director. Robbe-Grillet, who pioneered a style in the 1950s and 1960s called the "new novel," died Monday at a hospital in Caen, Normandy, according to his publisher, Fayard. ![]() Alain Robbe-Grillet, known as the enfant terrible of the French literary establishment, has died at age 85. ![]()
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