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On page 2032 of the class's anthology, there is a work by Alain Robbe-Grillet entitled "The Secret Room". What interests me about this work is that I thought that this topic or story is deep and hard to get the idea. So, I wanted to know about Alain Robbe-Grillet and wanted to get the idea. In this connection, the question that I want to research is who Alain Robbe-Grillet is and what is this story about. First of all, Robbe-grillet, he was born in Brittany, France, where was the place for scientists and engineers. At first, he was not a writer. He earned the degree in mathematics and natural science. He started working at National Institute of Statistics and published an article on livestock possibilities before deciding to work part time in his sister's biology laboratory and write a novel. The first novel he wrote was "A Regicide" in 1949. But, it didn't published until 1978 which was the time after he became a successful novelist.
Robbe-Grillet was one of the foremost filmmakers and the novelists of the French new novel, of the twentieth century. Frustrated about the lack of progress and innovation in the art of the novel since the nineteenth century, Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Saurrate began to write complex novels that interrogated and challenged conventional narrative modes, novels that altered or abolished fictional elements such as character, plot, setting, point of view, and chronological time in favor of repetitions, an absence of emotion, minute objective and sometimes geometric descriptions, the lack of authorial analysis, and the deconstruction of time. His films also reflect his desire to challenge the conventions of filmmaking, but he is recognized principally as a novelist.
The novels of Robbe-Grillet all challenge their readers to reevaluate the way they read, the way they think, and the way they visualize the world around them. The novels are vastly different from each other. "The Erasers" concerns



Bibliography: Stoltzfus, Ben F "Alain Robbe-Grillet And The New French Novel" 1964 Southern Illinois University Press Leki, Ilana "Alain Robbe-Grillet" 1983 G.K.Hall & Company Published by Twayne Publishers Lawall, Sarah, General editor "The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces" Volume 2 Seventh Edition 1984 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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