By Alain Robbe-Grillet, Richard Howard
Indeed, the occasions that punctuate the key agent’s remain in Berlin are vulnerable to abrupt transitions, exciting and questionable in equivalent degree: a capturing, a kidnapping, druggings, encounters with pimps and teen whores, police interrogations, even a few elegantly staged torture. those bloody occasions ensue amid thick fog alongside the city’s canals, or even extra mysterious narrative tips. Robin—or is the narrator truly dual brothers?—falls in love with a mysterious lady named Jo Kast (a connection with Oedipus’s mom Jocasta). Her teenaged daughter Gegenecke (the German translation of Antigone), a provocative blonde, will shape a wierd partnership equivalent to the blind Oedipus led into exile by way of Antigone. Dupont, the hero of The Erasers, returns the following as van Brucke (both names suggest “Of the Bridge,” one in French, the opposite in German). during this striking fictional cat-and-mouse video game, similar to Daedalus’s labyrinth, not anything that's remembered might be altogether actual, yet in basic terms what's remembered might be real.
Readers of Robbe-Grillet’s novel Erasers will realize, because the undercover agent of Repetition slowly turns into conscious that he used to be in Berlin before—as a toddler, together with his mom, maybe searching for his father—the related allusions to bits and items of the Oedipus tale equipped into the hero’s personal. certainly “erasing” a narrative by means of retelling it's the important motif of all Robbe-Grillet’s fiction and movies, of which this newest and possibly final novel is in lots of methods the main revealing and positive version.
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Reading it anew, I see that the physique of the flask, of a vaguely pharmaceutical style, finds, from yes angles, an inscription in floor glass together with the silhouette of an elephant, surmounted by means of the Greek identify of this creature, interestingly written in huge Cyrillic capitals (hence with a Russian S formed just like the Latin C, as opposed to the ultimate sigma) and beneath, in smaller letters, by means of the German observe Radierflüssigkeit, the that means of that is relatively mysterious to me. … yet an concept happens to me, recalling Walther von Brücke’s creative actions: Radierung capacity etching. … who prefer to not evoke, for the instant, my rival’s very compromising drawings, I make one other resolution of a extra evasive personality: “It should be a narcotic or a few poison deleterious to the certainty which has been placed drop by means of drop for numerous days in no matter what I drink: espresso, beer, wine, CocaCola … or even faucet water. ” “Yes, after all. … Your psychosis, or your alibi, of a few machination prepared opposed to you via numerous medications figures, in addition, within the purposes adduced in our file. should you suspect anyone specifically, it'd be totally in your curiosity to supply us with the identify. ” nonetheless leaning over the dispatch case, that's broad open at the desk, yet all of sudden having a look up towards the again of the room (by likelihood or even as the whispering from that course has grown louder? ), I detect that Maria and the older police officer, who’ve been status opposed to the bar whereas I’ve been chatting with the officer sitting together with his again to them, are conversing animatedly, notwithstanding being cautious to not increase their voices. they appear relatively at their ease, as though they’ve identified one another decades, although I in the beginning meant, due to their critical expressions, that their kinfolk have been solely expert. yet then a unexpected very gentle gesture at the man’s half makes me finish that there's a a lot larger intimacy among them, with not less than strong sexual connotations. … until, having spotted that I’m taking note of their dialogue, which without doubt matters me, they simply intend to misinform me. “Something, in any case,” maintains my interrogator, “destroys your speculation. at the one hand, this is often no poison, yet a correcting fluid, as is said in capital letters, even though in German, at the flask. This erasing fluid, extra over, has an altogether extraordinary motion, which alters not anything at the floor of the main gentle papers. And nonetheless, quite a few and specified fingerprints of your individual were detected at the glass, with out likelihood of blunders. ” With those phrases, the officer stands up and closes the dispatch case, whose contents—he believes—prove my culpability. The double locks of the lid click on, with the sound of an infallible mechanism which turns out to carry our come upon to an finish. “This man,” I say then, “who is making an attempt to pin his crime on me is named Walther von Brücke, and he's the victim’s son. ” “Unfortunately, that son died on may perhaps four, over the last battles in Mecklenburg.