The Village Voice, April 23rd, 2003
Robbe-Grillet's Nouveau Roman Holiday ERASERHEAD BY WILLIAM POUNDSTONE REPETION Alain Robbe-Grillet Grove, 178 pp., $23 From the novels of Joseph Conrad and Ian Fleming to TV's The Prisoner and Austin Powers's Mini-Me, deceptive doppelgangers populate spy fiction, serving as handy plot engines and, at best, as metaphors for a world where things aren't what they seem. In Repetition, Alain Robbe-Grillet's first novel in 20 years, French special agent Henri Robin travels to Berlin on a mission so hush-hush that even he isn't sure what it is. On the train he encounters "the traveler," the eve...
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