bookshelves: winter20092010, published-1964, france, mystery-thriller, books-with-a-passport Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Moxysox Recommended for: Post onto Clare Read in December, 2009 In the dimness of the café, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda ...
Like walking inside myself. Where I live, or even like a dream I often have where I am lost in the city, I can't find the right bus route, and the very air around me is golden. One comparison that comes to mind is being Diddy in Sontag's 'Death Kit'. But never mind, you either go or you don't. What ...
"Then there is the electric bulb swaying at the end of the long wire and the man's shadow swaying across the closed door like a slow metronome."The man walks out of the house, shutting and locking the door behind him. He steps down the three stairs to the sidewalk, first his right foot, then his lef...
"The shadow of the column, though it is already very long, would have to be nearly a yard longer to reach the little round spot on the flagstones. From the latter runs a thin vertical thread which increases in size as it rises from the concrete substructure. It then climbs up the wooden surface, fro...
I read 'Jealousy', not 'in The Labyrinth'. The book is strangely moving. I had not expected to like (or even understand) Robbe-Grillet - but, in fact, I liked this quite a bit -- though long..., endless discussions of horizontal wall moldings, though I see the point..., is somewhat pointless. Much ...
For my full review, please visit Casual Debris.Perhaps the most notable member of the group of experimental authors practicing the tenets of the Nouveau Roman (New Novel), Alain Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a fascinating, fun and frustrating murder mystery. It deals with a detective by the name of...
In the dimness of the café, the manager is arranging the tables and chairs, the ashtrays, the siphons of soda water; it is six in the morning.You know how we were on about Rashomon Effect just the other day...Love it - took some time working out how it should be read and then I was off and it was an...
This was such a gripping, suspenseful book. The premise is very simple: a salesman visits a small island of which he was once a resident, hoping to sell his stock of wristwatches. After that, everything is up for grabs, including the central turn of the plot, the murder of a young girl. The suspense...
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