About the Author

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the nouveau roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Claude Simon. He is the author of The Erasers, The Voyeur, Jealousy, In the Labyrinth, Recollections of the Golden Triangle, and La Maison de Rendez-Vous.

Reviews

Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet: "Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism."--John Updike "Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space"--Roland Barthes "Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time."--Claude Mauriac "Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding."--Bernard-Henri Lévy "I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."--New York Times "The suspense, built up by skillful near-repetition, keeps us on tenterhooks."--Justin O'Brien, New York Times Book Review, on The Voyeur "I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way her persuades us to look anew at the commonplace."--Jonathan Meades, Books and Bookmen, on The Voyeur