The narrator, travelling on an American passport in the name of James Larkin White, is arrested on arrival in Switzerland.
Stiller's wife Julika Stiller-Tschudy, a former ballet dancer who now runs a dance school, travels from Paris to visit him in prison.
Over the course of the novel, the complex histories of Stiller and White are revealed.
It was translated into English by Michael Bullock and published in an abridged version by Abelard-Schuman in 1958, and later as an unabridged edition by Methuen in 1982.
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