Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Born: August 18, 1922
Died: February 18, 2008 (aged 85)
Bio: Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend.
Known for:
- La Jalousie (1957)
- Pour un nouveau roman (1963)
- Djinn (1981)
- The voyeur (1958)
- La Maison de rendez-vous (1953)