The Mise-en-Scene

A powerfully hallucinatory novel. -- Publishers Weekly, 4/15/88It is remarkable that it has taken thirty years for a translation of La Mise-en-Scne 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 SupplementOne 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, 7/4/88The Mise-en-Scne is close to being the masterpiece expressing that most subjective of human passions: anguish. -- Les Lettres FranaisesThe 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, 9/88