Alain Robbe-Grillet Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Alain Robbe-Grillet Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 3 pages of information about the life of Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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The French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (born 1922) achieved fame for his innovative techniques in writing fiction. Influential in avant-garde Paris intellectual circles, his controversial critical theories regarding the concept of the modern novel were fulfilled in his own narratives.

Born in Brest, Alain Robbe-Grillet was educated at the Lycées Buffon and St. Louis in Paris and at the Lycée de Brest. Having received his engineering degree from the National Agricultural Institute of France, he pursued a scientific career as an officer at the National Institute of Statistics in Paris from 1945 to 1948. Later, as an agronomist for the French Institute of Colonial Agriculture, he traveled extensively in the tropics, particularly Morocco, Martinique, and French Guinea, for 3 years. Robbe-Grillet joined the publishing house of Minuit as a literary director in 1955, married two years after, and was subsequently named a member of the High Committee for the Preservation...

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