Alain Robbe-Grillet

• Dec-1977
• / General Fiction

Rear cover notes: "This is Alain Robbe-Grillet's first novel in seven years. The book was hailed as 'a masterful creation' by French reviewers who see it as marking an important new stage in the development of the famous founder of the 'new novel.' H...

• Jun-1982
• / General Fiction

• 1988
• / Literary

• Jan-1990
• / General Fiction

Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the nouveau roman, as well as its major spokesman. For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and ...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction

The first book from the French avant-gardist and author of Jealousy. “Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel” (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro).   Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction

Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called �"new novel” which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy. �"Jealousy,” said the New York Times Book Review �"is a technical masterpiece, impe...

• Feb-1994
• / Thriller

“Could be read as the French New Novelist’s tribute to the vibrant Latin American fiction that his own early works helped to inspire” (The New York Times Book Review).   A provocative novel by one of the most influential French writers, Re...

• Mar-1994
• / General Fiction

The winner of the Prix des Critiques from the French avant-garde author of Jealousy. "Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel" (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro).   Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual t...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction

Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial nouveau roman. This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing...

• Dec-1995
• / Literary

• Dec-1995
• / Literary

• May-2000
• / Literary

• Feb-2003
• / Thriller

From the French master of the avant-garde: "A spy tale whose prime puzzle lies in the philosophical intricacies of its own construction" (Entertainment Weekly).   We are in the bombed-out Berlin of 1949, after the Second World War, r...

• Sep-2012
• / General Fiction

Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself -- or a foreigner's nightmare of New York -- as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain...

• Apr-2014
• / General Fiction

In France, Alain Robbe-Grillet's final novel was sold in shrink-wrap, labeled with a sticker warning readers that this perverse fairy tale might offend certain sensibilities. It tells the story of Gigi, also known as Djinn, who is being schooled b...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction

Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement -- with essays by Roland Barthes and others. In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landsca...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary

A collection of two remarkable short novels that epitomize the project of the nouveau roman, Jealousy and In the Labyrinth brings the reader into a world where physical space and time bend and change, where a jalousie window blind resonates with the ...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction