From the French master of the avant-garde: "A spy tale whose prime puzzle lies in the philosophical intricacies of its own construction" ( Entertainment Weekly ).We are in the bombed-out Berlin of 1949, after the Second World War, rendered with an atmosphere reminiscent of Orson Welles' The Third Man. Henri Robin, a special agent of the French secret service, arrives in the ruined former capital ...

Agreeing with Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret that building a sustainable post-pandemic era calls for wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor (Covid-19: The Great Reset, 2020), the present volume takes a close look at some previous attempts to create win-win societies that provide dignified livelihoods for everyone and inflict humiliating exclusion on no one. It examines India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee and Sweden's post–World War II social democracy and...

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 al...

Two stunning works from the French avant-garde writer and filmmaker, the master of the "new novel" literary movement.La Maison de Rendez-vousWith Hong Kong as the setting, Alain Robbe-Grillet creates a world of crime, intrigue, and passion dominated by Lady Ava's mysterious Blue Villa. The novella unfolds over the course of only one evening, but the events of that night recur repeatedly, and the same moments are described from the ...

Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others.In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown city. From these deceptively simple premises, Alain R...

The winner of the Prix des Critiques from the French avant-garde author of Jealousy. "Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel" (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro).Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime an...

In this sweeping historical series debut, a fallen French aristocrat must prove himself in the furnace of Napoleon's army.France, 1795: Confusion and fear reign in the Republic. With her troops facing starvation and annihilation on three fronts, France is killing her patriots. Alain Lausard, an aristocrat whose family were massacred in The Terror, now rots in prison. His one chance at freedom is to serve in the faltering Italian campaign,...

The first book from the French avant-gardist and author of Jealousy. "Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel" (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro).Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the nouveau 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 th...

As Napoleon prepares to invade Prussia, a war-weary sergeant is pushed to his limit in this epic military adventure series.France, 1806. Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armeé is poised for war. But this is no ordinary mission. Having crushed the forces of Austria and Russia the year before, Bonaparte now seeks to avenge the French Army's annihilation by Frederick the Great's Prussian forces in 1757. When Prussia refuses to comply with Bonaparte's demands that ...

As they march into Poland, an exhausted Grand Armeé must battle both enemies and the elements in this epic adventure of the Napoleonic Wars.Poland, 1807: Sergeant Alain Lausard and his loyal dragoons have never known a campaign like it. Already spent from their victory over Prussia, they must now march into Poland and battle General Bennigsen's Russian troops. And the Tsar is not the only enemy that must be overcome: country and climate conspire to make co...

"There is no physical survival without social order, no social order without norms, no norms without culture, no culture without myth, no myth without dreams." This is one of the many sentences in this book that artfully manifest their messages in the way they are written. This book is a firework of elegance and love, the very ingredients that give dreams power. This book does more than inform us with brilliant arguments of why we need a large-scale Gestalt shift. It is a paradigm shifter ...

Napoleon's mighty army face the inferno of the Egyptian desert in this thrilling historical adventure, the sequel to Bonaparte's Sons.France, 1798. Seventeen thousand French troops leave Toulon harbor in May, unaware of their ultimate destination. Barely three months after taking Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte has rewarded his finest regiments with a place among the Army of the Orient, bound for Egypt.Alain Lausard and his cavalry unit are on bo...