Robbe-Grillet
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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She was drawn to outsiders like Jean Genet and those, like Alain Robbe-Grillet, who recoiled from conventional storytelling.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
His projects included modern and classic French books, from the memoirs of Charles de Gaulle to experimental novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet to the philosophy of Howard’s friend Roland Barthes.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Mr. Calder also helped introduce British readers to continental writers including Eugene Ionesco, Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet, and championed edgy Americans, publishing Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” and William S. Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2018
I am unconvinced that the only man on the planet with horrifying fantasies was Alain Robbe-Grillet.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2014
I couldn’t help thinking of John Ashbery’s mid-career poetry, for example, or the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet, both of which are filled with such mystifying gaps between object and description.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2013
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