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Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner's nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.
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Project for a Revolution in New York, Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Language
- Released
- 1972
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Project for a Revolution in New York
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Publisher
- Black Cat
- Released
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 183
- ISBN10
- 0394177681
- ISBN13
- 9780394177687
- Series
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner's nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.