Ghosts in the MIrror, A Romanesque by Robbe-Grillet, Alain - 1988

Grove Wiedenfeld, January 1991. Hardcover. Used - Very Good.

Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Very Good. Robbe-Grillet, Alain. Ghosts In the Mirror. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 1st ed. 174pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good.

Grove Press, 1991. First edition. fine/fine. fine book in fine dw 1st Grove Pr 1991 hardcover name inside In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 1st US . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. (1st US, 1st) Slightly smaller book, blue cloth spine, blue boards, silver lettering bright on spine, tiny light spots on spine, 174 pages. DJ glossy blue with blue-tinted photo on front and back, small b/w photo on front also. DJ back has praise from John Updike, Claude Mauriac and others. DJ has light scratch at top back. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.

New York : Grove Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 174 pages ; 25 cm. Notes: Translation of: Le miroir qui revient. Subjects: Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922-2008; Novelists, French 20th century ; Biography; Romanciers français 20e siècle ; Biographies; Novelists, French; Novelists, French ; Biography 20th century; Novelists, French 20th century ; Biography; Fiction in French Robbe-Grillet, Alain 1922 Biographies.

1991. Uncorrected Proof. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 13.5 x 21cm. (11), 174 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. Rejecting the usual approach in autobiographical writing of presenting a life as "a quasi-historical narrative . . . arranged in a causal sequence," Robbe-Grillet ( Last Year at Marienbad ) instead views this first volume of memoirs as a process of "continua lquestioning" by a "resolute, ill-equipped, imprudent explorer." In the volume at hand, the process concerns the literary, psychological and personal. Among Robbe-Grillet's literary preoccupations are the influence of Camus's The Stranger on himself and a generation of writers, and his own role as an "objective novelist"; among the psychological, his sexual preference for young girls; among the personal, his wife and their marriage of four decades. And, like all who lived through it, Robbe-Grillet was marked forever by WW II: after the Liberation, his"personal relations with order underwent a profound change" as he… Read More