The Voyeur

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Voyeur
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alain Robbe-Grillet
Translated by Richard Howard
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780714548579
ClassificationsDewey:843.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Books Ltd
Publication Date 23 August 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably accumulate. Through the warped screen of his distorted mind, the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation. And yet in the end reality has lost all meaning, as the distinction between the narrator's recollections and the underlying facts are more and more blurred. This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.

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.

Reviews

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