After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death. The government authorities, believing that the attack is part of a series of political assassinations, send Wallas, a recently promoted special investigator, to the provincial town where the crime took place. As he wanders the confusing streets of the town, he finds himself increasingly lost in a web of conspiracies, doppelgangers and memories. Cleverly deconstructing the detective genre, The Erasers, Alain Robbe-Grillet's first published novel, shifts between various characters and time frames, while maintaining the suspense of a conventional thriller. The result is an engrossing examination of consciousness and reality which is also one the founding texts of the Nouveau Roman school.
- ISBN10 0714502146
- ISBN13 9780714502144
- Publish Date March 1970 (first published June 1966)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Calder Publications Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219
- Language English