This story of drug-running, mysterious bordellos, and murder isn't just sequentially reframed to modify reader understanding, but constantly broken apart down to a few archetypal characters and events that can be infinitely rearranged and reinterpreted until ever possibility has been exhausted. Robbe-Grillet has written many versions of this kind constant reconfiguration of pulp tropes over the years, but probably never so completely as here. Any A vast multiplication of narrative possibilities. A vast multiplication of narrative possibilities.