Last Year at Marienbad

The Film Script

Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard

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Alma Books Ltd
01 January 2023

Films, movies & cinema; Film movie scripts & screenplays

A man

tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then

agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for

her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together,

real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear – and she begins to believe

him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman’s mind, the reader is

shunted backwards and forwards between the past and the present, the actual

and the illusory, that which is seen and that which is only glimpsed and

guessed at.

The director Alain Resnais was already famous for films such as Hiroshima,

Mon Amour when he asked Alain Robbe-Grillet – the author of several seminal

novels, including Jealousy and The Voyeur, and the leader of the Nouveau

Roman school – to write a script for him. The result was Last Year at

Marienbad, a film that, as well as winning the Golden Lion at the 1961 Venice

Film Festival, has enthralled the critics, fascinated the public and become

one of the greatest cult classics of modern cinema.

By: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Translated by: Richard Howard
Imprint: Alma Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780714550503
ISBN 10: 0714550507
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 01 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922–2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.