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Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias’s mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homocidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the “new novel,” The Voyeur achieves the impossible feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child’s murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred.
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Der Augenzeuge, Alain Robbe-Grillet
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- Released
- 1986
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- Title
- Der Augenzeuge
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Publisher
- Suhrkamp
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 233
- ISBN10
- 3518019317
- ISBN13
- 9783518019313
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Classics, France, French Literature, New Novel, Anti-novel
- First published
- 1955
- Original title
- Le Voyeur
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias’s mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homocidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the “new novel,” The Voyeur achieves the impossible feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child’s murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred.