阿兰·罗伯-格里耶

生平

阿兰·罗伯-格里耶出生于法国西部城市布勒斯特，1944年毕业于法国国立农艺学院，专业研究方向是香蕉病虫害。其后，他长期工作于马提尼克。1953年，他在午夜出版社出版了首部小说《橡皮》（Les Gommes），此后成为全职作家。1961年，他编写的电影剧本《去年在马里昂巴》由法国新浪潮导演阿伦·雷乃的摄制成电影，并获得该年威尼斯电影节金狮奖。

从1960年代起，格里耶本人也曾创作并导演过数部电影，有《欧洲快车》、《撒谎的人》、《欲念浮动》、《使人疯狂的噪音》等，他于1963年单独摄制的影片《不朽的女人》荣获路易·德吕克电影奖。2006年的《格拉迪瓦找您》（Gradiva）是他生前拍摄的最后一部电影。

Alain Robbe-Grillet (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɔb ɡʁijɛ]; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman (lit. 'new novel') trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He married Catherine Robbe-Grillet (née Rstakian).

Biography

Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest (Finistère, France) to a family of engineers and scientists. He was trained as an agricultural engineer. During the years 1943 and 1944, he participated in compulsory labor in Nuremberg, where he worked as a machinist. The initial few months were seen by Robbe-Grillet as something of a holiday. In between the very rudimentary training he was given to operate the machinery, he had free time to go to the theatre and the opera.

In 1945, he completed his diploma at the National Institute of Agronomy.……

Work

Robbe-Grillet's first published novel was The Erasers (Les Gommes), which was issued by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1953. After that, he dedicated himself full-time to his new occupation. His early work was praised by eminent critics, such as Roland Barthes and Maurice Blanchot. Around the time of his second novel, he became a literary advisor for Les Éditions de Minuit and occupied this position from 1955 until 1985.……

Style

His writing style has been described as "realist" or "phenomenological" (in the Husserlian sense) or "a theory of pure surface". Methodical, geometric, and often repetitive descriptions of objects replace (though often reveal) the psychology and interiority of the character.……

Novels

Robbe-Grillet wrote his first novel A Regicide (Un Régicide) in 1949, but it was rejected by Gallimard, a major French publishing house, and only later published with minor corrections by his lifelong publisher Les Éditions de Minuit in 1978. His second novel, The Erasers (Les Gommes), superficially resembles a detective novel, but it contains within it a deeper structure based on the tale of Oedipus. The detective is seeking the assassin in a murder that has not yet occurred, only to discover that it is his destiny to become that assassin.

Films

Robbe-Grillet's career as a creator of fiction was not restricted to the writing of novels. For him, creating fiction in the form of films was of equal importance. His film career began when Alain Resnais chose to collaborate with him on his 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad. The film was nominated for the 1963 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and won the Golden Lion when it came out in 1961. In the credits it was presented as a film equally co-authored by Robbe-Grillet and Resnais.

Filmography

L'immortelle (1963)

Trans-Europ-Express (1966)

L'homme qui ment / Muž, ktorý luže (1968)

L'Eden et après / Eden a potom (1970)

N. a pris les dés... (1971)

Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974), starring Anicée Alvina, Olga Georges-Picot, Michel Lonsdale, Jean Martin; editor Bob Wade; producer Roger Boublil

Le jeu avec le feu / Playing with Fire (1975)

La belle captive (1983), starring: Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle Lazure, Cyrielle Claire, Daniel Emilfork, Roland Dubillard, François Chaumette

The Blue Villa (1995), starring: Fred Ward, Arielle Dombasle