Jealousy (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Alain Robbe-Grillet
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: Probably the early 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory, New Novel
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Writing, Jealousy, envy, or resentment
- Locales: Islands
Places Discussed
House. Home of the novel’s anonymous narrator and his wife, who is identified only as “A . . . ” Located at the center of a series of squares or—boxes, the house is surrounded by other squares or partial boxes—a veranda, a garden, a courtyard, and the banana plantation, which encloses the house on all four sides of its square. The narrator- husband always remains in or close to his home. Readers see nothing that lies beyond his field of vision and are consequently at the mercy of the narrator’s judgments.
A road leads from the house to a...
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