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The Voyeur
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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 homicidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the "new novel,"
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." —
"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." —
"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." —
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“original, twisty, dark, graphic and vile. Left me sick to my stomach. But completely unlike anything I have ever read. Wish I read in French.”“From time to time he turned around to face the salesman, and cried out a few words, accompanying them with confused movements of his elbows - vestiges of vaster demonstrations.”
About Alain Robbe-Grillet
(1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the Noveau Roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. He is the author of
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