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The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death. The government authorities, believing that the attack is part of a series of... -
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principal preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen... -
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his... -
A Regicide by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714548593Author Alain Robbe-GrilletFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Impr -
In the Labyrinth Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780714544571
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The 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 wandering through an... -
Snapshots by Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780810113282
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Alain 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... -
For a New Novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780810108219
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Alain 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... -
Alain Robbe-Grillet John Phillips 9781784991081
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $25.21Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the... -
Why I Love Barthes Alain Robbe-Grillet 9780745650791
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.41The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published... -
Last Year at Marienbad: The Film Script by Alain Robbe-Grillet
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.73A man tells a woman that they have met before - that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers... -
The Inner Harbour: A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 9781517919696
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23A beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century In The Inner Harbour, Antoine Volodine focuses... -
Reading Unruly: Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands by Zahi Zalloua 9780803246270
Booksplease Price: $43.20Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Reading Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues... -
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert M. Alter
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of... -
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The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: "The Judge and His Hangman" and "Suspicion" by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Booksplease Price: $21.61This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and... -
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau 9780811207898
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.49The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet,... -
The Endless Theory of Days: The Art and Poetry of Gerard Titus-Carmel by Michael Bishop 9789042021655
Booksplease Price: $74.69The Endless Theory of Days: The Art and Poetry of Gerard Titus-Carmel seeks to set forth the case for the special, multiple genius of a man who, despite the experience of a biting melancholy... -
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach forgoes... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.95John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how,... -
New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American Sara Kippur 9781503642614
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation-from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo-but less often appreciated is the... -
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, this book invites the reader to enter a world which in its innocence and extravagance is unlike... -
Pursuit: The Memoirs of John Calder by John Calder
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.34"Publish and be damned", Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of... -
The Blue Flowers by Raymond Queneau 9780811227926
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.47The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d'Auge as he rages through... -
On the Clock by Claire Baglin 9780811239356
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Claire Baglin's On the Clock packs a family saga, a penetrating picture of social inequality, and a coming-of-age story into a compact tale told in two alternating strands. The first follows the... -
Taipei Tao Lin 9781782111856
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43At some point, maybe twenty minutes after he'd begun refreshing Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Gmail in a continuous cycle - with an ongoing, affectless, humorless realisation that his day 'was over' -...