num_pages: 256
description: Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is then turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion.
language: English
title: The Erasers
titlecomplete: The Erasers
characters: Wallas, Daniel Dupont
genres: Classics, France, Mystery, Novels, Detective, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1644
awards: name: Prix Fénéon
publisher: Grove Press