Ghosts in the Mirror - Hardcover

GHOSTS IN THE MIRROR: A ROMANESQUE

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First US Edition. First impression of the first US edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1":. 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Translated from the French by Jo Levy. ***Near fine in blue boards with silver titles to blue cloth-covered spine. Remainder black ink-stamp "GP" to bottom of text-block. Head and tail of spine and edges of boards slightly rubbed. Spine tight. No inscriptions. Pages bright white. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of $17.95. No tears. Very slight fading to spine of dustwrapper. Rear and front panel of dustwrapper bright. 242mm x 144mm. xi prelim-pages plus 174 pages. ***'Alain Robbe-Grillet - one of the most discussed and controversial writers of the postwar era, theorist and leading practitioner of the nouveau roman, author of The Voyeur, Jealousy, Last Year at Marienbad, and In the Labyrinth, along with many other landmark works of modern fiction - cheerfully tosses literary hand grenades at admirers and detractors alike in this, the first book in a projected three-volume memoir. ***The complex and frequently dazzling sequences, digressions, cuts, repetitions, blind alleys, inversions, and shifts in perspective found here are all the work of an author who has studied himself closely. As the nouveau roman is a narrative in search of its own coherence, this is an autobiography that springs to life in reflecting on its own meanings. The internal conflicts of the writer become the very subject of the book in an exercise in which fiction is truth and truth, fiction.' (Quote from rear of wrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first US edition in its original dustwrapper. Hard to find in the UK. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Artikel-Nr. 4292

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