BOOKS: THE BOOKS INTERVIEW: Reprise for a blooming cactus A living legend of French fiction and cinema, Alain Robbe-Grillet transformed the novel, advised Beckett and (reputedly) inspired David Lynch. Before a rare UK appearance, he talks to Gerry Feehily about his flowering career

The Independent - London | March 23, 2002| | Copyright

In addition to being one of France's most famous authors, Alain Robbe-Grillet is a specialist on cacti. To come to his Neuilly flat, just west of Paris, bearing a gift of a Lithops optica could well be construed as a redundant gesture, especially when the tiny, purple but costly bulb in question is, according to him, not a cactus at all. Faux gift or not, he still launches the interview with a discourse on cactus maintenance. His French is exquisite; so lapidary, it's almost Latin.

As Hazlitt said of Coleridge, Alain Robbe-Grillet talks for ever. But you wish he would. At 79, he's ...

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