The Voyeur

Name: The Voyeur
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Experimental novel about a salesman witnessing a possible crime on an island

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author and leading theorist of the Nouveau Roman who rejected psychological depth and traditional storytelling in favor of objective description. The Voyeur and Jealousy are key texts of French literary modernism.

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