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Alain
Robbe-Grillet
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On February
18, 2008
Alain
Robbe-Grillet,
85, the
French
writer who
pioneered
the
so-called
"new novel"
genre such
as Les
Gommes (The
Erasers) and
Le Voyeur,
died
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He also
worked in
film, first
as a
scriptwriter
and later as
a director.
·
The novelist
was admitted
to the Caen
University
Hospital in
France over
the weekend
for cardiac
problems and
died on
Monday
morning,
officials
said.
·
Robbe-Grillet
was
born on
18 August,
1922,
in Brest,
western
France.
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Les Gommes,
his 1953
debut novel,
remains
among his
most
celebrated
works and
tells the
story of a
murder
committed by
the
detective
who has come
to
investigate
it.
·
In
1958's La
Jalousie
(Jealousy),
Robbe-Grillet
writes of a
man living
on a banana
plantation
who suspects
his wife of
having an
affair.
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Among his
movies are
1963's
L'Immortelle
(The
Immortal),
1966's
Trans-Europ-Express,
and 1968's
L'Homme Qui
Ment (The
Man Who
Lies).
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His last
novel, Un
Roman
Sentimental
(A
Sentimental
Novel), was
published in
2007.
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