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ISBN-10: 0802128769
ISBN-13: 9780802128768
Publisher: Grove Press
Publish Date: 11/20/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H

The Voyeur

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Overview

One of Robbe-Grillet’s most important works and winner of the 1955 Prix des Critiques, The Voyeur tells the gripping story of a thirteen-year-old girl who is found drowned and mutilated. Suspicion surrounds Mathias, a reclusive traveling salesman, and as the circumstances are eerily recreated through the eyes of the suspected killer, the reader is drawn into a haunting mystery. Writing with eerie precision but nonetheless flouting the established rules of fiction, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside the mind of an unreliable narrator penned by an unreliable author.

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Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet:

"Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism."–John Updike

"Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space"–Roland Barthes

"Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time."–Claude Mauriac

"Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding."–Bernard-Henri Lévy

"I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."New York Times

"The suspense, built up by skillful near-repetition, keeps us on tenterhooks."–Justin O'Brien, New York Times Book Review, on The Voyeur

"I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way her persuades us to look anew at the commonplace."–Jonathan Meades, Books and Bookmen, on The Voyeur

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Details

ISBN-10: 0802128769
ISBN-13: 9780802128768
Publisher: Grove Press
Publish Date: 11/20/2018
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.40" W, 0.70" H
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