The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet

The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet

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.

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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780714548579
ISBN 10	071454857X
Title	The Voyeur
Author	Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alma Books Ltd
Year published	2018-08-23
Number of pages	176
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