Repetition

Repetition is the first novel in twenty years from Alain Robbe-Grillet, the legendary founder of the nouveau roman tradition—groundbreaking works combining high literature, genre fiction, and an exploration into consciousness—in the 1950s and who remains one of the most influential writers of the last half-century. It is a triumphant accomplishment, an atmospheric spy novel of violence, espionage, and tricks of the eye, set in the crumbling cityscape of postwar Berlin.