Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for
the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth
century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but
is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture
of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period
following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work
of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is
turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin.
Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The
Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to
its ominous conclusion.