ROBBE-GRILLET, Alain

While Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as one of France's leading practitioners of the Nouveau Roman, his extremely provocative and experimental work in film has been consistently overlooked outside his native country. Most of the commentary on Robbe-Grillet and film, particularly in the United States, is confined to descriptions of his screenplay for Last Weekend at Marienbad (1961), an infamous antirealist project directed by Alain Resnais (1922). But Marienbad was just Robbe-Grillet's...