Like so many of Robbe-Grillet's novels, The Erasers is circular in structure; the murder, which allegedly took place at the beginning, setting the events of the novel in motion, in fact takes place at the end. The novel is more "ordered," chronologically, than later works; but, despite the classical twenty-four-hour span of the novel, the reader's sense of time is disordered, subverted by the number of flashbacks, memories,.....
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