The winner of the Prix des Critiques from the French avant-garde
author of Jealousy. “Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution
in the novel” (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro).
Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the
island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a
thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie
precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes
us inside Mathias’s mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on
the trail of a homicidal maniac. A triumphant display of the
techniques of the “new novel,” The Voyeur achieves the impossible
feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child’s
murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really
occurred. “The suspense . . . keeps us on tenterhooks.”
—The New York Times Book Review “I can think of no other writer
who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest,
slyest, and most sheerly delightful way he persuades us to look anew
at the commonplace.” —Books and Bookmen Praise for Alain
Robbe-Grillet “Robbe-Grillet’s theories constitute the most
ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism.” —John Updike,
Pulitzer Prize–winner “Robbe-Grillet is important because he
has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the
organization of literary space.” —Roland Barthes, influential
literary theorist “Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human
misunderstanding.” —Bernard-Henri Lévy, public intellectual,
author, and filmmaker “I doubt that fiction as art can any longer
be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.” —The New York Times
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ISBN
9780802190567
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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