Two stunning works from the French avant-garde writer and filmmaker,
the master of the “new novel” literary movement. La Maison de
Rendez-vous With Hong Kong as the setting, Alain Robbe-Grillet
creates a world of crime, intrigue, and passion dominated by Lady
Ava’s mysterious Blue Villa. The novella unfolds over the course of
only one evening, but the events of that night recur repeatedly, and
the same moments are described from the perspectives of different
characters. In La Maison de Rendez-vous, Robbe-Grillet creates “a
new literary entertainment, and a poetic, amusing, captivating book”
(The New York Times Book Review). Djinn A haunting,
disorienting, brilliantly constructed novel, Djinn “may win a whole
generation over to the nouveau roman” (International Herald
Tribune). It is the story of a young man who joins a clandestine
organization under the command of an alluring, androgynous American
girl, Djinn. Having agreed to wear dark glasses and carry a cane like
a blind man, he comes to realize, through bizarre encounters,
recurring visual images, and fractured time sequences he experiences
as part of his undisclosed mission, that he is, in a sense, helplessly
blind. His search for the meaning of his mission and for possible
clues to the identity of the mysterious Djinn becomes a quest for his
own identity in an ever-shifting time-space continuum. “Alain
Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel.”
—Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro “[La Maison de
Rendez-vous] is a funny book, a provocation, a do-it-yourself mystery
or a fairy tale.” —The New York Times “Robbe-Grillet is at
the top of his form with this fantastic tale.” —Le Monde
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ISBN
9780802190598
Publisert
2015
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Grove Press (ORIM)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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