Project For A Revolution In New York
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark of the French New Novel movement, Project for a Revolution in New York presents a fragmented, labyrinthine narrative set against a lurid, nightmarish vision of New York City, where violence, eroticism, and political conspiracy blur into an endlessly looping dreamscape. Alain Robbe-Grillet constructs a world in which characters, scenes, and motives repeat and contradict themselves, dismantling the conventions of plot and causality with cool, clinical precision. The novel argues, through its very structure, that narrative itself is a form of ideology — a system of control as oppressive as any political regime. Written in Robbe-Grillet's characteristically detached yet hypnotic prose, it illustrates how the mechanics of storytelling can be turned against themselves to expose the artifice beneath. Challenging, provocative, and intellectually rigorous, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to avant-garde fiction and the radical possibilities of literary form.
Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A landmark of the French New Novel movement, Project for a Revolution in New York presents a fragmented, labyrinthine narrative set against a lurid, nightmarish vision of New York City, where violence, eroticism, and political conspiracy blur into an endlessly looping dreamscape. Alain Robbe-Grillet constructs a world in which characters, scenes, and motives repeat and contradict themselves, dismantling the conventions of plot and causality with cool, clinical precision. The novel argues, through its very structure, that narrative itself is a form of ideology — a system of control as oppressive as any political regime. Written in Robbe-Grillet's characteristically detached yet hypnotic prose, it illustrates how the mechanics of storytelling can be turned against themselves to expose the artifice beneath. Challenging, provocative, and intellectually rigorous, this is essential reading for anyone drawn to avant-garde fiction and the radical possibilities of literary form.