Published in 1970 by the Parisian publishing house Minuit, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel The Project for a Revolution in New York is one of the fundamental texts of 20th-century literature. In it, the French writer for the first time uses a number of techniques - derealization of the scene, “serialization” of characters, irreducible multiplicity of plots - which have influenced the development of cinema, literature and philosophy in recent decades. In this novel, Robbe-Grillet complements the "materialism" of his earlier books with a radical bracketing of the subject, direct narration and descriptive procedures of the traditional novel. The influence of Robbe-Grillet's innovations on the contemporary cultural context is analyzed in the classic texts of Maurice Blanchot, Rolland Barthes, Michel Foucault and in the foreword by Mikhail Ryklin.