I should have felt grief at the news of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s death last week. Instead I recognized in myself only confusing relief. He was a great champion for the innovative novel, so in a way I owe ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 25 2008 Alain Robbe-Grillet's last film was C'est Gradiva Qui Vous Appelle, made in 2006, ...

David Shields recently dismissed most contemporary novels as "antediluvian texts" that "could have been written by Flaubert 150 years ago". "In no way," claimed the author of Reality Hunger, "do they ...

PARIS — Alain Robbe-Grillet has been a hair in the soup of France’s stodgy intellectual establishment ever since he burst onto the literary scene in the Fifties as the ringleader of the “Nouveau Roman ...