Robert Pinget

Fable

The Libera Me Domine

The Inquisitory consists entirely of the interrogation of an old, deaf servant regarding unspecified crimes that may or may not have taken place at his master's French chateau. The servant's replies - which are by turns comic, straightforward, angry, nostalgic, and disingenuous - hint at a variety of seedy events, including murder, orgies, tax fraud, and drug deals. Of course, the servant wasn't involved with any of these activities - if the reader chooses to believe him. In trying to convince the inquisitor of his innocence, the servant creates a web of half-truths, vague references, and glaring inconsistencies amid "forgotten" details, indicating that he may know more than he's letting on.

The Inquisitory

That Voice

Red Dust (Firm)

Passacaglia

Le narrateur est un nommé Maille ou Miette, vagabond dans le malheur universel, errant dans un univers où toutes les formes sont dispersées, un monde dépourvu de futur, à l'intérieur duquel tout est chaque instant possible, où n'importe quoi peut être dit.

Between Fantoine and Agapa

A Novel

Mahu, Or, The Material

This early work by the landmark Swiss author Robert Pinget is unlike any other he produced over his long career; indeed, there are few books by any writer with which it bears comparison--aside perhaps from the novels of Raymond Roussel or Denis Diderot. Graal Flibuste follows the progress of its narrator and his impudent coachman, Brindon, through a fantastical land peopled by strange creatures and stranger potentates, and filled with tall tales, mysteries, crimes, dilemmas, and deities . . . not least among whom is the terrible god Graal Flibuste himself.

Robert Pinget

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