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The Erasers
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Description for The Erasers
Paperback. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death. The government authorities, believing that the attack is part of a series of political assassinations, send Wallas, a recently promoted special investigator, to the provincial town where the crime took place. As he wanders the confusing streets of the town, he finds himself increasingly lost in a web of conspiracies, doppelgangers and memories. Cleverly deconstructing the detective genre, The Erasers, Alain Robbe-Grillet's first published novel, shifts between various characters and time frames, while maintaining the suspense ... Read more
After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death. The government authorities, believing that the attack is part of a series of political assassinations, send Wallas, a recently promoted special investigator, to the provincial town where the crime took place. As he wanders the confusing streets of the town, he finds himself increasingly lost in a web of conspiracies, doppelgangers and memories. Cleverly deconstructing the detective genre, The Erasers, Alain Robbe-Grillet's first published novel, shifts between various characters and time frames, while maintaining the suspense ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Calder Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Surrey, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714544595
SKU
V9780714544595
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About Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.
Reviews for The Erasers
Robbe-Grillet is a visual novelist for whom perception is intrinsically fascinating but fraught with uncertainty.
The Daily Telegraph
Fascinating ... It is an intricately clever novel
The Spectator
I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.
The New York Times
Uses the full apparatus of the thriller ... ... Read more
The Daily Telegraph
Fascinating ... It is an intricately clever novel
The Spectator
I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.
The New York Times
Uses the full apparatus of the thriller ... ... Read more