The early work of Alain Robbe-Grillet (born in 1922) overturned the usual ideas about the genre of the novel and marked the beginning of the “new novel” - one of the most revolutionary phenomena in world literature of the 20th century. The book includes three works by the writer: “Erasers” (1953), “The Spy” (1955) and “Jealousy” (1957). Robbe-Grillet likes to play on reader stereotypes, parodying classical genre standards. Despite the abundance of direct and indirect evidence that seems to indicate that the hero of the novel, Mathias, actually committed the murder of Jacqueline Leduc, the criminal strangely avoids exposure. Moreover, no one except the alleged criminal himself is investigating...