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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instanceOf experimental novel
nouveau roman
novel
author Alain Robbe-Grillet NERFINISHED
centralTheme jealousy
marital suspicion
perception
subjectivity
countryOfOrigin France
criticalReception considered a landmark of the nouveau roman
followedBy Dans le labyrinthe
formalCharacteristic absence of explicit narrator identification
ambiguous point of view
minimal psychological explanation
nonlinear temporal structure
genre experimental literature
nouveau roman
hasAdaptation La Jalousie (stage adaptations)
hasNarrativeFocus recurrent observation of the same events
spatial relations
influencedBy Nouveau Roman movement NERFINISHED
literaryMovement Nouveau Roman NERFINISHED
mainCharacter A
A’s wife
Franck NERFINISHED
narrativeStyle third-person
narrativeTechnique detailed description of objects
interior focalization
limited perspective
repetition of scenes
notableFor ambiguous narrative perspective
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
an unnamed tropical country
studiedIn French literature courses
modernist literature courses
narratology and theory of the novel
titleMeaning Jealousy
usesMotif insects and the natural environment
shadows and light
shutters and windows

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