READING ROBBE-GRILLET, Fred Skolnik

He cannot know anything about Mathias beyond what is recorded in the novel, as Mathias does not exist outside its pages.

This is a nice little book about the work and methods of Alain Robbe-Grillet that appears to have disappeared from the world since I first picked it up. This was a re-read for me – I think I first read it around 2015. It’s vanished from the publisher page, it’s not available on Amazon, and seems to be archived (or perhaps just a version of it) in bare text on this unreadable web page. It’s so weird to see something vanish entirely – hell, vanishing almost entirely from the record. And it’s a useful book, too!