The Erasers

Newly reissued with an eye-catching cover by Peter Mendelsund, one of legendary avant-garde writer Alain Robbe-Grillet's most important works

About the author

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) was a prominent postwar avant-garde novelist and filmmaker. He was a founder of the nouveau roman literary movement, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Claude Simon. His books include Jealousy & In the Labyrinth, The Voyeur, and Recollections of the Golden Triangle.

Summary

First published in 1953, and winner of the Fénéon Prize, Robbe-Grillet’s astonishing debut novel is a sinister, singular mystery centered around a series of eight murders in eight days. After the ninth murder, the investigation turns over to a police agent—but it soon looks like the agent has been crooked from the start. With deft sleight-of-hand, Robbe-Grillet conjures an unsteady reality where fact mixes with fantasy, producing an intriguing and unnerving puzzle.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780802129291
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-2929-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; France, Thriller / suspense fiction, c 1950 to c 1959, Relating to middle adulthood, CULTURAL HERITAGE / French, noveau roman;detective;fantasy;murder;mystery;assassin