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Free 1-3 USPS Priority Mail shipping in USA 48. Book Condition: Good+ to Very Good (see my listing photography). No marks in book. Dust Jacket: Never published with dust jacket Editions de Minuit, 1953. 18x14x2cm. 1953. 264 pages. First Edition. Softcover. French edition. ABOUT THIS NOVEL FROM WIKIPEDIA: Plot: Someone attempts to assassinate a man, Daniel Dupont, in his own home. The assassin appears to have been ordered by a terrorist group to assassinate Dupont for political reasons. Suffering a slight bullet wound to the arm, Dupont fakes his death with the help of Doctor Juard. Wallas, a newly promoted investigator, tries to unearth those responsible for the assassination, despite there being no body recovered by the police. STYLE: One element of style Les Gommes employs is the use of free indirect discourse. The narration of the plot is presented from the point of view of the different characters in the novel, sometimes switching viewpoints between paragraphs. The reader has access to the thoughts of investigators, culprits, and victims alike giving a biased, though comprehensive view of the events surrounding the assassination. This stylistic choice allows the reader to conduct their own investigation in parallel to that of Wallas and Laurent. Though the major details of the attempted assassination are known from the prologue, many important details are left unknown and arise as the reader and the investigation by Wallas progresses. The other major stylistic element is the circular nature of the novel and how many actions and descriptions are repeated over and over. This effect circular movement and events which Wallas cannot escape is highlighted by the repetition of the street names in the village: Circle Boulevard, Pacer Street. The same description of Wallas and a cyclist crossing a draw-bridge is repeated multiple times. Throughout Wallas' investigations the first thing he is always planning on doing is to interview Doctor Juard, but he is continually being sidetracked and having to start over on this first and most important task. Notably there is one instance where Wallas is idly walking and ends up back where he started. The circular nature is also reinforced by similarities (of appearance and actions) drawn between Wallas the investigator and Garinati the assassin. ABOUT THE AUTHOR, FROM WIKIPEDIA: WORK: Robbe-Grillet's first published novel was The Erasers (Les Gommes), which was issued by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1953. After that, he dedicated himself full-time to his new occupation. His early work was praised by eminent critics, such as Roland Barthes and Maurice Blanchot. Around the time of his second novel, he became a literary advisor for Les Éditions de Minuit and occupied this position from 1955 until 1985. After publishing four novels, in 1961, he worked with Alain Resnais, writing the script for Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad), and he subsequently wrote and directed his own films. In 1963, Robbe-Grillet published For a New Novel (Pour un Nouveau Roman), a collection of previously published theoretical writings concerning the novel. From 1966 to 1968, he was a member of the High Committee for the Defense and Expansion of French (Haut comité pour la défense et l'expansion de la langue française). In addition, Robbe-Grillet also led the Centre for Sociology of Literature (Centre de sociologie de la littérature) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles from 1980 to 1988. From 1971 to 1995, Robbe-Grillet was a professor at New York University, lecturing on his own novels. Although Robbe-Grillet was elected to the Académie française in 2004, in his eighties, he never was formally received by the Académie because of disputes regarding the Académie's reception procedures. Robbe-Grillet both refused to prepare and submit a welcome speech in advance, preferring to improvise his speech, as well as refusing to purchase and wear the Académie's famous green tails (habit vert). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0118
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