The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher Jerome Lindon, he always cited the name of Roland Barthes. In 1980, he wrote his own 'I love, I don't love', published here for the first time, thinking about his friend. In 1985, he predicted: 'It is his work as a writer...

The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher Jerome Lindon, he always cited the name of Roland Barthes. In 1980, he wrote his own 'I love, I don't love', published here for the first time, thinking about his friend. In 1985, he predicted: 'It is his work as a writer...

Jedno ze zásadních děl jednoho z největších francouzských spisovatelů 20. století, jednoho ze zakladatelů nového románu, Alaina Robbe-Grilleta. Mathias, neúspěšný obchodní cestující, se po pětatřiceti letech vrací na svůj rodný ostrov. Dva dny poté je na pláži nalezena utonulá třináctiletá dívka s tělem zohaveným mořskými kraby. Čtenářova pozornost je neustále narušována Mathiasovými vjemy, pohyby a představami, až si nakonec uvědomí, že se nachází uvnitř mysli vražedného maniaka. Přesto, že příběh dosáhne hrozivého vyvrcholení v...