PARIS -- French novelist-turned-filmmaker Alain Rob-be-Grillet died Monday at the age of 85, the Gallic-language academy L'Academie Francaise reported. By Rebecca Leffler, The Associated Press ...

Robbet-Grillet came to be known in France as the "pope of the new novel". It was a title that he adored – and loved to play with. When he was elected to the Académie française in March 2005 ...

Catherine Robbe-Grillet, 83, is France’s most famous dominatrix, yet, as she tells Toni Bentley in February’s Vanity Fair, she has never, ever accepted money for her “ceremonies”: “If ...

However, Catherine Robbe-Grillet—who is also the widow of one of 20th century France’s most famous novelists, Alain Robbe-Grillet—did make one of her rare American appearances in New York ...

“A Sentimental Novel,” the final published work of the novelist and theorist Alain Robbe-Grillet, appeared in France four months before his death, in 2008, and in English translation last sprin ...