Ebook: Project for a revolution in New York
Author: Howard Richard, Robbe-Grillet Alain
- Tags: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. New York (State) -- New York. FICTION / General
- Series: French literature series (Normal Ill.)
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- City: New York (N.Y.), New York (State)--New York
- Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition
- Language: English, French
- epub
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. Read more...
Abstract: 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 alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the