La Jalousie
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La Jalousie is a landmark 1957 experimental novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet, noted for its rigorous use of the nouveau roman style and its obsessive, ambiguous exploration of jealousy and perception.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Jalousie canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental novel
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nouveau roman ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Alain Robbe-Grillet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
jealousy
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marital suspicion ⓘ perception ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticalReception | considered a landmark of the nouveau roman ⓘ |
| followedBy | Dans le labyrinthe ⓘ |
| formalCharacteristic |
absence of explicit narrator identification
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ambiguous point of view ⓘ minimal psychological explanation ⓘ nonlinear temporal structure ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental literature
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nouveau roman ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | La Jalousie (stage adaptations) ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus |
recurrent observation of the same events
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spatial relations ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Nouveau Roman movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Nouveau Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
A
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A’s wife ⓘ Franck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
detailed description of objects
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interior focalization ⓘ limited perspective ⓘ repetition of scenes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambiguous narrative perspective
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experimental treatment of time and repetition ⓘ obsessive focus on visual description ⓘ rigorous use of nouveau roman techniques ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Alain Robbe-Grillet’s early novels ⓘ |
| precededBy | Le Voyeur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| publisher | Les Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
a colonial banana plantation
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an unnamed tropical country ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
French literature courses
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modernist literature courses ⓘ narratology and theory of the novel ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | Jealousy ⓘ |
| usesMotif |
insects and the natural environment
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shadows and light ⓘ shutters and windows ⓘ |
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