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This was as much a philosophical project as a literary one. Alain robbegrillet, an avantgarde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar new novel movement in france, died monday. From 1971 to 1995, robbegrillet was a professor at new york university, lecturing on his own. Alain robbegrillet was a french writer and filmmaker. In the 1970s and 1980s, alain robbegrillet, already known as a major representative of the socalled nouveau roman, the french new novel, was a regular visiting professor at new york university. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential american city, alain robbegrillets novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion.
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