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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Alain Robbe-Grillet (18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer, critic and film-maker.
Quotes
Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will perhaps — and it is a big perhaps — allow man to act on the world.
Observation in 1975, quoted in French in Jean Ricardou (ed.) Robbe-Grillet: Analyse, Théorie, vol. 2 (Paris: Union Générale d'Editions, 1976) p. 418; English translation in John Fletcher, Alain Robbe-Grillet (London: Methuen, 1983) p. 16
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Category:1922 births
Category:2008 deaths
Category:Non-fiction authors from France
Category:Legion of Honour recipients
Category:Members of the Académie Française
Category:Literary critics
Category:Film directors from France