The Erasers

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Original title: Les gommes. English

first published 1964 Calder Publications Ltd, 1966 hardcover 219 pages

Evergreen book -- E-691.

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 wor...

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This book in English

Richard Howard 1 printing we hold · 1994 · Grove Press

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Editions we hold

The Erasers paperback · 1994 · Grove Press · 256 pages · 9780802150868
Erasers edition · 1970 · Grove Press · 256 pages
The Erasers hardcover · 1966 · Calder Publications Ltd · 219 pages · 9780714502137

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