"Robbe-Grillet's theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism."--John Updike

"Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space"--Roland Barthes

"Alain Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution more radical than Romanticism and Naturalism were in their time."--Claude Mauriac

"Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding."--Bernard-Henri Lévy

"I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet."--New York Times

"Robbe-Grillet has done away with the omniscient narrator, has exploded the concept of plot, and has slyly focused his fiction on fiction itself, on the creation of literature."--Artforum

"A haunting, mystifying evocation of a murder that will keep your attention riveted."--Dallas Morning News