Reading Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet came to the attention of fiction readers in the 1950s with a series of extraordinary novels whose declared aim was to take the modern break with the traditional narrative a step further and help create a "new realism." The novels of Robbe-Grillet made a strong impression on Fred Skolnik, whose essay, "Reading Robbe-Grillet" explores and elucidates literary techniques, plots, and themes of these novels