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The Voyeur

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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Publisher Comments:

When a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated, suspicion immediately 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 complex and haunting mystery. In this masterful example of the 'nouveau roman', Alain Robbe-Grillet demonstrates his stunning ability to transform the mystery story into the realm of hish art.

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

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

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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 homocidal 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.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780802131652
Translator:
Howard, Richard
Author:
Howard, Richard
Author:
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Publisher:
Grove Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Philosophy : General
Edition Number:
New Evergreen ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Series Volume:
no. 27
Publication Date:
19940231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.38 in 8.46 oz
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Product details 224 pages Grove Press - English 9780802131652 Reviews:
"Review" by , "I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."
"Review" by , "Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since surrealism."
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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 homocidal 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.
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