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Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Short novel in which a mysterious narrator tells repeatedly the same story adding small new details each time it is told. The narrator observes with cinematic objectivity the context in which the action takes place and the actions of the main characters, a woman called A and Franck, a neighbour from a nearby plantation who visits her. The action takes place in an unnamed African country, and there are colonial echoes in the narrative and the attitudes of the characters. It is an intriguing book, written in a very idiosyncratic manner ( )
  alalba | Sep 22, 2009 |
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Original publication date1959
Important placesWest Indies
Awards and honors1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008 Edition)
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0881334758, Paperback)

PUBLISHED IN FRENCH. Jealousy, the old standby in fiction and drama, is the subject of this short French novel set on a banana plantation in the West Indies. Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie treats a traditional situation (husband, wife, outsider) in a fascinating, detective-story-like way. Readers discover as they read what is happening and speculate on how to interpret the incidents related. The whole fascination of the novel lies in the question: What really happened? It can be raised almost at every page. No two critics ever agree on the answer. Questions, given in French, as notes, serve to alert readers to the significance of certain facts and give them a grasp of the techniques Robbe-Grillet uses. The general introduction, in English, briefly discusses the significance of the "new novel," Robbe-Grillet's particular theories, and attempts to place La Jalousie in perspective without giving away clues to the solution of the story, which readers will want to find for themselves.

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