One of Robbe-Grillet's most important works and winner of the 1955 Prix
des Critiques, The Voyeur tells the gripping story of a
thirteen-year-old girl who is found drowned and mutilated. Suspicion
surrounds Mathias, a reclusive traveling salesman, and as the
circumstances are eerily recreated through the eyes of the suspected
killer, the reader is drawn into a haunting mystery. Writing with eerie
precision but nonetheless flouting the established rules of fiction,
Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside the
mind of an unreliable narrator penned by an unreliable author.