Alain Robbe-Grillet 100 -- August 18, 2022

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A professor at San Francisco State had us read Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel La Jalousie. It took us all a while to figure out the narrator. In a film class we saw Last Year at Marienbad; Robbe-Grillet wrote the script. I have never seen any of the movies that he directed. Alain Robbe-Grillet was born 100 years ago today, on 18-August-1922.

Alain Resnais, RIP -- March 5, 2014

French director Alain Resnais has died.  I had read about his work, but I didn't see any of his movies till I saw Last Year at Marienbad in a film class.  The whole class found it confusing, even after a vigorous discussion.  Then I took a class where we read translations of two novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur and Jealousy.  When I saw the movie again, I found it more digestible.