num_pages: 183
description: Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner's nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art—and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the New York, and the United States, that have actually come into being.
language: English
title: Project for a Revolution in New York
titlecomplete: Project for a Revolution in New York
genres: Classics, France, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Urbanism, Fiction
ratings_count: 315
publisher: Grove Pr