The Mise-en-Scène
by:
Claude Ollier (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780916583262 (0916583260)
Publish date: May 1988
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
I'm in the tank for nouveau roman novels, but this is the best one I've read besides Robbe-Grillet's early work. A French engineer named Lassalle travels into uncharted Moroccan mountains to find a road site to reach a mine. He encounters growing menace when a young woman, Jamila, is stabbed to de...