Fiction. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. "Language has invaded reality, remaking it; a strange sign has invoked a plot. The familiar cause and effect world was displaced by a seemingly nonsensical one the moment they turned off the main highway toward Agapa but now what is holding this tale together? Not much, except the voice of the narrator and his quest for meaning, but it is a quest now completely undermined by incongruity, irresolvable mystery and at the end a kind of comic terror...one of our major contemporary artists has discovered his territory."—Robert Coover
Author City: GENEVA SWI
Robert Pinget was born in 1920 in Geneva. His first collection of stories, BETWEEN FANTOINE AND AGAPA, was pubished in 1951. Pinget has written more than 30 books: novels, plays, and "notebooks." His last book, Taches d'Encre came out in 1997, the year he died.