Jealousy (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: Indeterminate
- Principal Characters: The Unnamed Narrator, A . . . ., Franck
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory, New Novel
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Love or romance, Writing, Jealousy, envy, or resentment
- Locales: Islands
The Story:
In the usual understanding of the term, there is no story in this novel. The author’s method of narration is deliberately designed to challenge conventional reader expectations. Events in the novel do not follow in a straight line from beginning to end; the pattern is more a convolution of episodes repeated again and again with minor variations, out of which there emerges a partially realized story.
The narrator suspected his wife, A . . . ., of infidelity with their neighbor Franck. The narrator and Franck owned banana plantations; they and their wives...
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