The Investigation

The Investigation

by HelenLane (Translator), JuanJoseSaer (Author)

Synopsis

He's called 'the monster of the Bastille'. He's brutally murdered 27 elderly women in one area of Paris. Chief Inspector Morvan is in charge of the investigation into this macabre and sinister case: every victim seems to have invited the killer into her home, to have enjoyed a meal, even celebrated, before her death. And each time the killer has meticulously bathed himself, leaving the scene of the crime without a single fingerprint. In Argentina meanwhile, an untitled manuscript by an unnamed author is discovered amongst the papers of a missing poet, known for his hatred of the novel. The Investigation seeks to unravel two cases - one criminal, one literary. Part police investigation, part historical account and part novel, it shows Saer at his virtuoso best, effortlessly orchestrating the different layers.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 182
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 14 Dec 1998

ISBN 10: 1852422971
ISBN 13: 9781852422974

Media Reviews
?A fascinatingly bleak, artfully self-conscious thriller? The Times ?Saer is a past master at literary games? Independent on Sunday ?A very readable, brilliantly sustained literary tease whose creepiness and millenial angst stay with one long after the last page is finished? The Crack
Author Bio
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina in 1937, Juan Jose Saer is the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. In 1968, he moved to Paris and taught literature at the university in Rennes, Brittany. In 1988, Juan Jose Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize for The Event. His work is translated into all major languages and includes The Witness, Nobody Nothing Never and The Investigation, also published by Serpent's Tail. Saer died in July 2005.