Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (born August 18, 1922 in Brest , † February 18, 2008 in Caen ) was a French agricultural engineer, filmmaker, writer and member of the Académie française .

Career

Alain Robbe-Grillet studied agricultural science and initially worked at the National Institute for Statistics in Paris. During the Second World War , he had to do labor service in Nuremberg for a year in 1943 .

Through his work, Robbe-Grillet is considered to be one of the fathers of the Nouveau Roman . It is a term that goes back to his essay Pour un Nouveau Roman . This new non-realistic novel should neither reflect reality nor convey messages, but rather depict literary forms and their development. Between violence and eroticism, he always slips soberly and metonymically over sensory impressions. By constantly merging tiny images of pleasure and pain , rather than resorting to coherent , narrative or meaning structures, Robbe-Grillet succeeded not only in changing the concept of literature, but also in playing tricks on the reader's attention .

Alain Robbe-Grillet was married to the writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet since 1957 .

membership

Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected to the Académie française on March 25, 2004 .

Fonts

Novels

Un régicide . 1949
- Translator Eva Schewe: A regicide , only in double volume with snapshots. Early prose (translated by Tophoven). Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin 1983
Les Gommes . 1953
- Übers. Gerda von Uslar : One day too many . Wegner, Hamburg 1954
- Übers. Gerda von Uslar: The erasers . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989
Le Voyeur . 1955
- Übers. Elmar Tophoven : The eyewitness. 1957
La blind . 1957
- Übers. Elmar Tophoven: The blind or jealousy . 1959
Dans le labyrinthe . 1959
- Übers. Elmar Tophoven: The defeat of Reichenfels. 1960
La Maison de rendez-vous . 1965
- Übers. Rolf Soellner, Hedda Soellner: The blue villa in Hong Kong. 1966
Project pour une revolution in New York . 1970
- Übers. Rolf Soellner, Hedda Soellner: Project for a revolution in New York. 1971
Topology d'une cité fantôme . 1976
- Übers. Hans-Horst Henschen : Views of a ghost town. 1977
Souvenirs du Triangle d'Or . 1978
Djinn . 1981
- Translator Elmar Tophoven: Djinn. A red hole in the patchy pavement . 1983
La reprise . 2001
- Übers. Andrea Spingler : The repetition.
Un roman sentimental . 2007

Novellas

Instantanés . 1962
- Übers. Elmar Tophoven: Snapshots . 1963

Essays

Pour un Nouveau Roman . 1963
- Arguments for a new novel . Essays. Translator Marie-Simone Morel, Helmut Scheffel u. a.
- German Excerpt: New novel, new man, in Verena von der Heyden-Rynsch Ed .: Vive la littérature! Contemporary French literature. Hanser, Munich 1989, pp. 209-214. Translator Marie-Simone Morel
Le Voyageur. Textes, causeries et entretiens 1947 - 2001 . Christian Bourgois, Paris 2001

Automythographs

Le miroir qui revient . 1985
- Übers. Andrea Spingler: The recurring mirror.
Angélique ou l'enchantement . 1988
- Translated by Andrea Spingler: Angélique or the enchantment. Suhrkamp 1989
Les derniers jours de Corinthe .
- Übers. Andrea Spingler: Corinthes last days. Suhrkamp 1997

Text collection

Why I love Roland Barthes . Ed. Olivier Corpet, transl. Philipp Rang. Edition Suhrkamp 2700, 2017

Filmography

Scripts

L'Année dernière à Marienbad. 1961 ( last year in Marienbad )
L'Immortelle. 1963 (The Immortal)
Trans-Europ-Express . 1966
Glissements progressifs du plaisir. 1974.

Director

L'Immortelle. 1963 (The Immortal)
Trans-Europ-Express . 1966
L'homme qui ment. 1968.
L'Éden et après. 1970.
Glissements progressifs du plaisir . 1974. (The constant slide of desire)
Le Jeu avec le feu. 1975.
La belle captive. 1983. Based on a novel by himself. Screenplay by Frank Verpillat. (Print of the novel: Bibliothèque des arts, Lausanne 1975, without ISBN. Illustr. René Magritte )
Un bruit qui rend fou . 1995 (The Blue Villa)
C'est Gradiva qui vous rappelle. 2006, (The Call of Gradiva ) based on the novella by Wilhelm Jensen

Quotes

Because the function of art is never to illustrate a truth - or even a question - that one already knows, but rather to raise questions (and perhaps also to give answers at the right time) that do not yet know themselves.
- " What use theories " In: " Arguments for a new novel "

literature

Karl Alfred Blüher : Robbe-Grillet between modern and post-modern. "Nouveau Roman", "Nouveau Cinéma" and "Nouvelle Autobiography". Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1992 ISBN 3-8233-4399-8
Scarlett Winter: Robbe-Grillet, Resnais and the new look. Carl Winter, Heidelberg 2007 ISBN 978-3-8253-5271-4
Anthony N. Fragola, C. Smith Roch: The Erotic Dream Machine: Interviews with Alain Robbe-Grillet on His Films. Southern Illinois University Press , 1992 ISBN 0-8093-1798-2
Nathalie Groß: Autopoiesis. Theory and practice of autobiographical writing with Alain Robbe-Grillet. Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-503-09844-6 .
Ernstpeter Ruhe: Alain Robbe-Grillet: "Le voyeur". In: Martha Kleinhans, Klaus Stierstorfer (Hrsg.): Readings for the 21st century. Key texts in European literature: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Russia. (Lecture series at the University of Würzburg 2000). Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2001 ISBN 3-8260-1944-X pp. 119-136
Christina Schaefer: Constructivism and the novel. Epistemological aspects in Alain Robbe-Grillet's theory and practice of storytelling . Steiner, Stuttgart 2013 ISBN 978-3-515-10278-0
Christoph Wagner : ", Ceci n'est pas une pipe '- image and text in international transfer with René Magritte and Alain Robbe-Grillet", in: Multi-perspective issues in Translation Romania (Sabest, Saarbrücker Contributions to Linguistics and Translation Studies, 14) , ed. by Alberto Gil and Ursula Wienen, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-6315-6186-7 , pp. 331-350 ( available online ).

Web links

Literature by and about Alain Robbe-Grillet in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Alain Robbe-Grillet in the German Digital Library
Alain Robbe-Grillet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Alain Robbe-Grillet - El fantastico se renueva. ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Dossier at DBCult Film Institute
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008). ( Memento of August 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Annotated bibliography. (English)
Very detailed bibliography (French)
Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Audio recording of a reading and conversation with Robbe-Grillet at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) , June 1987

Single receipts

↑ Spingler in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
↑ Robbe-Grillet and Barthes were friends for almost 30 years. It began in 1953 when Barthes praised The Erasers as "successful" because they were "avant-garde". After that, a close relationship developed between the novelist Robbe-Grillet, who praised the writer in the theorist, and the semiologist Barthes, who valued the practicing philosopher of écriture in the novelist . Robbe-Grillet's comments on Barthes show a tension between the pleasure in text and the pleasure in playing with fiction, in which French literature developed in the second half of the 20th century.

personal data
SURNAME	Robbe-Grillet, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French writer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brest
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 2008
Place of death	Caen

[1] Spingler in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019

[2] Robbe-Grillet and Barthes were friends for almost 30 years. It began in 1953 when Barthes praised The Erasers as "successful" because they were "avant-garde". After that, a close relationship developed between the novelist Robbe-Grillet, who praised the writer in the theorist, and the semiologist Barthes, who valued the practicing philosopher of écriture in the novelist . Robbe-Grillet's comments on Barthes show a tension between the pleasure in text and the pleasure in playing with fiction, in which French literature developed in the second half of the 20th century.