The first book from the French avant-gardist and author of Jealousy.
“Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel”
(Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro). Alain
Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the
nouveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.
The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is
primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture
of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period
following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work
of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is
turned over to a police agent—who may in fact be the assassin.
Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality,
The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pulls us
along to its ominous conclusion. “On the surface, and surface is
the key word with this author, The Erasers is a mystery story, where a
police agent named Wallas stalks an unknown assassin through a
nameless puzzleboard Flemish town . . . Nothing is certain. The
only thing the reader can be sure of is the laser precise detail in
which all that isn’t clear is described, catalogued and analyzed.”
—The Millions “A haunting, mystifying evocation of a murder
that will keep your attention riveted.” —The Dallas Morning News
Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet “I can think of no other writer
who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic.” —Books and
Bookmen “I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously
discussed without Robbe-Grillet.” —The New York Times
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ISBN
9780802190550
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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