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Book SynopsisPart detective novel, part investigation into the nature of knowledge, set in the mountains of Morocco when the French still controlled North Africa.
Trade Review"It is remarkable that it has taken thirty years for a translation of La Mise-en-Scene to appear... This novel comes as close to perfection as a novel ever can; not a word or sentence is wasted, and the reader could continue unearthing symmetries and resonances for a very long time." -- Ivan Hill, Times Literary Supplement "One of the best as well as the most influential of the new novels... Skillfully translated by Dominic Di Bernardi... The novel is a demonstration of the complexity of reality, and the impossibility of knowing for certain the true meaning of a chain of events... A rich voyage of discovery of the human psyche... by one of the most original authors in modern France." -- Dick Leonard, Washington Times "The minute description of every sight and sound is a send-up of 19th-century French realism; in this case appearances reveal nothing but their own appearance... The translator has done a praiseworthy job in bringing this novel to the English reading public, for Claude Ollier remains one of the most significant writers among the New Novelists in recent French literature." -- Choice
