The Secret Room (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Surrealist
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: An underground room
- Principal Characters: A naked woman, Her assailant
- Genres: Short fiction, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Sexism, Gender roles, Feminism, Women, Symbolism, Torture, Subterranean or underground regions
The Story
A macabre scene unfolds before the reader like a motion picture in slow motion as a close shot of crimson streaks slowly pulls back from a small detail without context opened to reveal a broad shot of a vast room with massive columns and a great staircase shaped in a helix that rises up into the darkness. A silver incense burner issues out scrolls of smoke, providing partial context for a woman stretched out on the floor with blood streaming from a gruesome wound to one of her breasts. As from out of the corner of an eye, readers catch a glimpse of a man in black,...
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