{"id":260376,"date":"2008-02-19T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/19\/obituary-alain-robbe-grillet\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:33","slug":"obituary-alain-robbe-grillet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/19\/obituary-alain-robbe-grillet\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Alain Robbe-Grillet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Robbe-Grillet passed away yesterday at the age of 85. A major force in twentieth-century French literature, here&#8217;s part of the obit in &#8220;<i>The Guardian<\/i>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He was the most prominent of France&#8217;s &#8220;new novelists,&#8221; a group that emerged in the mid-1950s and whose experimental works tossed aside traditional literary conventions like plot and character development, narrative and chronology, chapters and punctuation. Others included Claude Simon, Michel Butor and Nathalie Sarraute. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Read by high school and college students the world over, he enjoyed an international reputation based on the success of his early works. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200802b.htm#dl4\">Literary Saloon<\/a> has information about all the early obituaries, and some information about how his passing relates to the current problems of the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Robbe-Grillet passed away yesterday at the age of 85. A major force in twentieth-century French literature, here&#8217;s part of the obit in &#8220;The Guardian&#8220;: He was the most prominent of France&#8217;s &#8220;new novelists,&#8221; a group that emerged in the mid-1950s and whose experimental works tossed aside traditional literary conventions like plot and character development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[8926,1836,1596,1646],"class_list":["post-260376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alain-robbe-grillet","tag-cwp","tag-obituary","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326946,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260376\/revisions\/326946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}