Alain Robbe-Grillet

French writer, literary theorist, screenwriter and filmmaker. One of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman. His first published novel (second completed), 'Les Gommes' (The Erasers; 1953), is a detective story set within 24 hours in an unnamed northern French coastal city with a plot involving an anarchist group who kill a string of 'officials' to a strict timetable.