Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008) is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the nouveau roman, a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction, and as the author of Jealousy and The Voyeur.
Fascinating … It is an intricately clever novel * The Spectator * I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet. * The New York Times * Uses the full apparatus of the thriller … The conception is both inventive and subtle * The Sunday Times *