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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
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Review
It is an enormous relief to be shown the world in fresh colours. --The Spectator
Powerful evocation and atmospherics Christine Brooke-Roses translation is faultless. --The Observer
Robbe-Grillet's career was built on a sly and amusing paradox: of using fiction over and over again to undo the conventions of fiction. But how cleverly and engagingly he did it. --The Independent
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The Battle of Reichenfels has been fought and lost. The army is in flight. The enemy is expected to arrive in town at any moment. A soldier, carrying a parcel under his arm, is erring through the snowy streets. All the streets look the same, and he cannot remember the name of the street where he was to meet the man who had agreed to take the parcel. But he must delever the parcel or at least get rid of it ....
Alain Robbe-Grillet says in his prefatory note:'this story is fiction, not a report. It describes a reality which is not necessarily that of the reader's own experience .... And yet the reality here in question is strictly physical, that is to say it has no allegorical significance. The reader should therefore see in it only objects, the gestures, the words and the events that are told, without seeking to give them either more or less meaning than they would have in his own life, or in his death.'
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- PublisherGrove Pr
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0394170326
- ISBN 13 9780394170329
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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