The collected folk and fairy tales of writers and linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are in most cases now better known for their recent – and largely prettified – adaptations than for the brothers' renditions of them; thus, the gruesomeness of some of their most famous stories –
Alain Robbe-Grillet (August 18, 1922 – February 18, 2008), 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 (new novel) trend.
As with any movement of which its title and ideological thrust is foisted unwittingly and often unwarrantedly upon its supposed members, the Theater of the Absurd is as awkward and uneasy a fit for Eugène Ionesco's literary and artistic endeavors as they are for Samuel Beckett or Jean Genet