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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 Mathiass 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 childs murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred.
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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
Synopsis
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.