'The Inquisitory' by Robert Pinget

This novel consists entirely of the (almost) interminable interrogation of a deaf old servant who may or may not have witnessed an unspecified crime that may or may not have occurred. The reader is left to sift through this incredible mass of often dubious or contradictory but highly specific detail, and to wonder both about how we impose plot and narrative on the mass of ‘real’ detail that surrounds us every day, and about how the imagination can be pressured to give convincing texture to things that are not ‘true’ at all.