The Experience of the Night

Author: Marcel Bealu

Translator: Christine Donougher   Cover illustration: Lise Weisgerber  

Reviews

First published in Paris towards the end of the war, this sinister surrealist novel, details the narrator's adventures after he visits an optician named Dr Fohat. Little dolls, dark glasses, life-sized automatons and artificial eyeballs, all figure in the building up of a thoroughly uncanny atmosphere.

Phil Baker in The Sunday Times

The Experience of the Night is an odd, interesting, ultimately mysterious work where it is never clear if technology destroys the pure knowledge of science, through the coming future seems clearly ominous, with no relief in sight.

Faren Miller in Locus