Published in 1955 by les Editions de Minuit, whose Robbe-Grillet was a literary advisor for two decades, Le Voyeur recounts the journeys of a travelling salesman who crosses an island by bicycle. The book was rather coolly received by critics who went to see in this text almost without heroes and almost without a plot a mental aberration. The literary initiative pursued by Robbe-Grillet and opened two years earlier with Les Gommes, breaks with the humanistic tradition of novel. Jérôme Lindon, his publisher, get in the press kit, among others, the signatures of Roland Barthes and Maurice Blanchot who participe in make Robbe-Grillet "Pope of Nouveau Roman." The attribution of the Critics Award to Le Voyeur is the occasion of a virulent battle, at the heart of which lies the definition of literature, but also of the critical disconcerted by a problematic work .(sources : www.universalis.fr - www.evene.fr - www.libération.fr)
Currently, the librairie Loliée offers :
- Robbe-Grillet (Alain). Le Voyeur. Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1955, in-12, binding by Alix. First Edition. One of the 25 copies on vellum, only deluxe paper.
- Robbe-Grillet (Alain). Dans le Labyrinthe. Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1959, in-12. First edition. One of the 70 copies on vellum paper.
