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Djinn

Alain Robbe-Grillet

1981128 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1981
first published
  • 1981Les Editions de Monuit · 146 pages · ENG
  • 1982Grove Press · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780394525693
  • 1983Calder · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780714539782
  • 1988Grove Press · ENGISBN 9780394624600

"A haunting, disorienting, brilliantly constructed novel, Djinn is the story of a young man who joins a clandestine organization under the command of an alluring, androgynous American girl, Djinn. Having agreed to wear dark glasses and carry a can like a blind man, he comes to realize, through bizarre encounters, recurring visual images, and fractured time sequences he experiences as part of his undisclosed mission, that he is, in a sense, helplessly blind. His search for the meaning of his mission and for possible clues to the identity of the mysterious Djinn, becomes a quest for his own identity in an ever-shifting time-space continuum. His growing obsession with solving the mystery becomes the reader's own until, through a surprising shift in narrative perspective, the reader too becomes lost in the dimension between past and future." -- Publisher's description

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