- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1966.
- One of the creators of le Nouveau Roman with Alain Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon.
- He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne; his thesis concerned mathematics and the idea of necessity. After failing the exam that would have allowed him to teach philosophy in college, he began a nomadic career as a teacher of French language and literature in Egypt, Greece and Great Britain.
- In 2013 the Académie Française awarded him its Grand Prix for his life's work.
- A statue of his likening is part of a quartet in Plainpalais place in Genève.
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