Fénéon Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1954) Winner
Alain Robbe-Grillet
アラン・ロブ＝グリエ
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1922-08-18 （Brest, Finistère, France）
- Died
- 2008-02-18 （Caen, France） age 85
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Literary advisor, University lecturer
- Active Years
- 1953-2008
- Affiliations
- Les Éditions de Minuit (literary advisor), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Centre for Sociology of Literature), New York University (lecturer), Académie française (elected member)
- Memberships
- Académie française
- Influenced By
- Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot
- Influenced
- Novelists after the Nouveau Roman movement, Arthouse filmmakers (directors using self-conscious narrative manipulation)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon | — | — | 農業工学（農学技術者） | 1940年代まで（1945年卒） | France |
Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon
Degree:
農業工学（農学技術者）
Period:
1940年代まで（1945年卒）
Year of Graduation:
1945
Country:
France
Trained as an agricultural engineer; after graduation worked in agronomy overseas.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Fénéon Prize | The Erasers (Les Gommes) | — | Fénéon Prize organizers | 受賞 |
| 1962 | Louis Delluc Prize | L'Immortelle (film) | — | Louis Delluc Prize committee | 受賞 |
| 1961 | Golden Lion | Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad) | — | Venice Film Festival | 受賞（作品として） |
| 2004 | Académie française election | — | — | Académie française | 選出（会員） |
Fénéon Prize
1953
Work:
The Erasers (Les Gommes)
Organization:
Fénéon Prize organizers
Result:
受賞
Louis Delluc Prize
1962
Work:
L'Immortelle (film)
Organization:
Louis Delluc Prize committee
Result:
受賞
Golden Lion
1961
Work:
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
Organization:
Venice Film Festival
Result:
受賞（作品として）
Académie française election
2004
Organization:
Académie française
Result:
選出（会員）
Awards & Nominations
Ovid Prize (Ovidius Prize)
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
The Erasers (Les Gommes)
1953 Novel (experimental)Superficially a detective story, it is an experimental novel that uses repetition and displacement to unsettle narrative and identity.
repetitionfatedeconstruction of detective form
The Voyeur (Le Voyeur)
1955 Novel (experimental)A man returns to his native island and confronts ambiguous desires and a girl's death; the novel is marked by ambiguous narration and absence.
desirememoryabsence
La Jalousie
1957 Novel (experimental)An implied jealous husband observes his wife in a series of repetitive, meticulous descriptions that construct the psychology of jealousy.
jealousyobservationrepetitive description
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
1961 Screenplay / Film (cine-novel)Co-authored screenplay with Alain Resnais; an experimental film focusing on memory and ambiguous time that gained major attention.
memoryambiguous timeformal experimentation
Adaptations
- [Film] Last Year at Marienbad / Alain Resnais (1961)
Djinn
1981 NovelA later novel continuing experiments in narration and style; closely related to the language-teaching text Le Rendez-vous.
doublinglinguistic experimentation
Le Miroir qui revient (Ghosts in the Mirror)
1985 Autobiographical writingAn intentionally traditional autobiography describing his life and reflections in a more conventional form.
autobiographymemoir
Bibliography
- Un Régicide (1949)
- The Erasers (Les Gommes) (1953)
- The Voyeur (Le Voyeur) (1955)
- La Jalousie (1957)
- Dans le labyrinthe (1959)
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
- Instantanés (short stories, 1962)
- For a New Novel (Pour un Nouveau Roman, essays, 1963)
- L'Immortelle (film script, 1962)
- La Belle Captive (1975)
- Djinn (1981)
- Le Miroir qui revient (1985)
- La Reprise (Repetition) (2001)
- Un Roman sentimental (2007)
Adaptations
- Last Year at Marienbad (film, 1961)
- L'Immortelle (film, 1962)
- Trans-Europ-Express (film, 1966)
- La belle captive (film, 1983)
- C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle / Gradiva (film, 2006)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Nouveau Roman techniquesphenomenological / emphasis on surface descriptionmethodical, geometric and repetitive description
- Recurring Motifs
- voyeurismrepetition with slight variationsdetailed description of objectsjealousy and doubling
Health
-
Heart problems晩年（2000年代）Died in 2008 after suffering heart problems
Legacy
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a leading figure of the Nouveau Roman, experimenting across literature and film. His emphasis on surface description and repetition influenced late-20th-century literature and art cinema.
Academic Societies
- Académie française
Archives
- Collections at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
- Authority control records in international archives (VIAF, ISNI, GND, etc.)
In Popular Culture
- Last Year at Marienbad is frequently cited in film criticism and scholarship as a landmark experimental film
Quotes
-
It was as if no one had heard.
Source: The Voyeur (Le Voyeur) (1955)
Trivia
- He was subjected to compulsory labour in Nuremberg during World War II, working as a machinist.
- La Belle Captive includes numerous paintings by Magritte interspersed with the text.
- Elected to the Académie française in 2004 but refused some formal reception procedures (e.g. submitting a prepared speech, wearing the traditional habit).
- Married to Catherine Robbe-Grillet.