The critical circle used to comment on Robbe Grilletasatypicalwriterofpost Modernism, butalways ignoredhisopinionson "reality" and his practice in hiswriting.
As most people like their reading matter to be easily comprehensible, Mr Lindon's stable of such writers as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras and Claude Simon tended to be admired more by literary critics than by the public.