Books by author: Alain Robbe-Grillet

La Maison de Rendez-vous is perhaps the most surreal novel I have ever read. The narrative is fragmented, containing frequent, undocumented shifts of point-of-view as well as multiple retellings of several scenes. The basic structure gels after about two-thirds of the pages have been turned, but the details of the plot remain contradictory in places, even at the conclusion. This novel has a strong affinity with Erickson's Arc d'X for the reasons previously stated, through Erickson's world is more internally consistent. At only 150 pages, La Maison is certainly a book to be reread, but I'll wait until I have the energy to devote three or four solid hours to it.