Mise-en-Scene

"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