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The Erasers
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Erasers
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Translated by Richard Howard
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:208 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128 |
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Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780714544595
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Classifications | Dewey:843.914 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Alma Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Alma Books Ltd
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Publication Date |
26 April 2018 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 of a conventional thriller. The result is an engrossing examination of consciousness and reality which is also one the founding texts of the Nouveau Roman school.
Author Biography
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.
ReviewsFascinating ... 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 ... The conception is both inventive and subtle * The Sunday Times *
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