Rear cover notes: "This is Alain Robbe-Grillet's first novel in seven years. The book was hailed as 'a masterful creation' by French reviewers who see it as marking an important new stage in the development of the famous founder of the 'new novel.' Here the reader is cast in the role of archeologist digging through the various strata of a city in rubble, each level yielding clues to a mysterious bloody death, but recounted and remembered in many different ways. The murder is that of a lovely young girl, her naked body stained with a viscous red liquid. Was she murdered upon a stone altar in a ritual sacrifice? Or perhaps gang-raped by plundering soldiers? Robbe-Grillet treats it all as a kind of intellectual detective story, complete with silent assassins robed in black, flashing ornate stilettos, in which the reader becomes a collaborator in the solution of a crime as much of his own creation as it is the author's...."

Topology of a Phantom City

ROBBE-GRILLET, ALAIN

GROVE PRESS

In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation, the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other two characters' actions and events as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind. The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.

Jealousy: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Grove Pr

Critical essays on Robbe-Grillet's literary style and themes accompany the story of a soldier whose private mission in a maze-like city becomes a desperate obsession

In the Labyrinth: A Novel (Black Cat Book ; B-408) (English and French Edition)

Contemporary

Alain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the nouveau roman, as well as its major spokesman. For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of contemporary fiction. This is a work of immense importance for any discussions of the history of the novel and for contemporary thinking about the future of fiction.

For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction

History & Criticism

La Maison De Rendez Vous

Grove Press, Inc.

Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called "new novel" which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy during the past decade, Jealousy and In The Labyrinth. The present volume, which offers incisive essays on Robbe-Grillet by Professor Bruce Morrissette of the University of Chicago and by French critics Roland Barthes and Anne Minor, also contains a helpful bibliography of writings by and about the author.

Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

Evergreen Black Cat

New York City's crime world and drug culture provides the setting for ritual murder and sadistic orgies in this modern French novel

Project for a Revolution in New York; A Novel. (English and French Edition)

Alain Robbe-Grillet has long been regarded as the chief spokesman for the controversial nouveau roman. This collection of brilliant short pieces introduces the reader to those techniques employed by Robbe-Grillet in his longer works. These intriguing, gemlike stories represent his most accessible fiction.

Snapshots.

Djinn is a novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It was written as a French textbook with California State University, Dominguez Hills professor Yvone Lenard using a process of grammatical progression. Each chapter covers a specific element of French grammar which becomes increasingly difficult over the course of the novel.

Djinn (English and French Edition)

Science & Math

Mathematics

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Topology of a Phantom City

Jealousy: A Novel

In the Labyrinth: A Novel (Black Cat Book ; B-408) (English and French Edition)

For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction

La Maison De Rendez Vous

Two Novels by Robbe-Grillet: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

Project for a Revolution in New York; A Novel. (English and French Edition)

Snapshots.

Djinn (English and French Edition)

Topology of a Phantom City