Bill,
If you're interested in books built on the layout of Paris,
you should check out The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet. As I
recall, the murders are very specifically placed on the
city's map.
And miker, if you are getting into the late
modernist/postmodern, undependable narrator books, you should
definitely check out Robbe-Grillet (purveyor and theorist of
"The New Novel"), starting with either The Voyeur or
Jealousy.
I going to say they are very French in style, but they have a
lot in common with Alexander Trocchi's books, especially
Young Adam (has anyone seen the movie? is it really that
bad?) and he was Scottish, though he was, for a time, tied to
the Situationists (before Debord kicked him out, or did he
quit?). Of course, Young Adam really reminded me of Camus's
The Stranger, so maybe we're back to its being a French
style/worldview. Then again, The Goalie's Anxiety at the
Penalty Kick by Peter Handke had much the same feeling as
those two, so . . .
Mark
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