ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
Birth Date:1922
Place of Birth:Brest, France
Nationality:French
Gender:Male
Occupations:novelist, agronomist, screenwriter
Born in Brest, in Brittany, on 18 August 1922, Alain
Robbe-Grillet, the most influential French writer of his
generation, is the son of Gaston Robbe-Grillet, owner of a
small manufacturing business (himself the son of a
school-teacher) and of Yvonne Canu Robbe-Grillet (the daughter
of a navy petty-officer). He attended a Paris primary school
and then lycées in Paris and Brest.
In 1942 he passed the competitive entrance examination for
the prestigious Institut National d'Agronomie. In common with
many young men of his generation too young to fight in the
campaign that preceded the fall of France in 1940, he found
himself forcibly recruited to work for the Germans under the
STO, or compulsory labor scheme. This obligation interrupted
his studies and took him to Nuremberg in Germany, where he
worked as a lathe operator in a factory producing Panther
tanks from July 1943 to August 1944. On graduation in 1945 he
joined the staff of the Institut National de la Statistique
Birth Date:1922
Place of Birth:Brest, France
Nationality:French
Gender:Male
Occupations:novelist, agronomist, screenwriter
Born in Brest, in Brittany, on 18 August 1922, Alain
Robbe-Grillet, the most influential French writer of his
generation, is the son of Gaston Robbe-Grillet, owner of a
small manufacturing business (himself the son of a
school-teacher) and of Yvonne Canu Robbe-Grillet (the daughter
of a navy petty-officer). He attended a Paris primary school
and then lycées in Paris and Brest.
In 1942 he passed the competitive entrance examination for
the prestigious Institut National d'Agronomie. In common with
many young men of his generation too young to fight in the
campaign that preceded the fall of France in 1940, he found
himself forcibly recruited to work for the Germans under the
STO, or compulsory labor scheme. This obligation interrupted
his studies and took him to Nuremberg in Germany, where he
worked as a lathe operator in a factory producing Panther
tanks from July 1943 to August 1944. On graduation in 1945 he
joined the staff of the Institut National de la Statistique