On this day 103 years ago, on August 18, 1922 (June 26, 1922), the founder of the French "New Novel" genre was born. Alain Rob-Grier (1922-2008), born on August 18, 1922 in Brest, France, is one of the representative writers of the French "New Novel School". After graduating from the French National Institute of Agronomy in 1945, he worked at the National Institute of Statistics and the Institute of Colonial Tropical Fruits, and worked on fruit research in various parts of Africa. In the 1950s, Grier began to write literature. In 1953, he published his famous work "Eraser", and in 1955 he won the French Critics Prize for his publication of "The Peeping Man". After that, he worked as a literary consultant at the Paris Midnight Press, where he also engaged in writing and filming. His major works, in addition to "The Eraser" and "The Peeper", include "Envy" (1957), "In the Labyrinth" (1959), "Snapshot" (1962), "The Plan of the New York Revolution" (1970), "The Beautiful Captive Woman" (1975); theoretical works include "New Novel Illustrated" (1963). His film novel "Last Year in Marumba" (1961) was made by the famous French New Wave film director Arlen René and won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival in the same year. For a time, Rob Gliers specialized in filmmaking, believing that film art was more suitable than fiction for objectively documenting the world of things, depicting the complex and changeable inner activities of modern people, expressing the beating of time, and the intersection of reality, imagination, illusion and dream. His solo film "The Immortal Woman" won the Drucker Film Prize in 1963. Gliers died in the early morning of February 18, 2008 at the age of 85. As the founder of the French "new novel" genre, Gliers opposed traditional narratives and was considered one of the world's most important avant-garde writers. The death of this "bad boy" in the literary world has caused Chinese and foreign literary people to mourn that "the era of French new fiction is over".