''La Jalousie'' (Jealousy) is a 1957

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by Alain Robbe-Grillet. The

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title: "la jalousie" is a play on words that can be translated as "jealousy", but also as "the

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". ''La Jalousie'' is one of critics' and literary theorists' main examples of Robbe-Grillet's demonstrations of his concept of the nouveau roman, for which he later explicitly advocated in his 1963 '' Pour un nouveau roman'' (''For a New Novel''). Robbe-Grillet argued that the novel was constructed along the lines of an "absent" third-person narrator. In that account of the novel, the narrator, a jealous husband, silently observes the interactions of his wife (referred to only as "A...") and a neighbour, Franck. The silent narrator, who never names himself (and whose presence is merely inferred, e.g. by the number of place settings at the dinner table or deck chairs on the verandah) is extremely suspicious that A... is having an affair with Franck. Throughout the novel, he continually replays his observations and suspicions (that is, created scenarios about A... and Franck), so much so that it becomes impossible to distinguish moments that are observed from those that are merely suspected. ''La Jalousie'' was a critical success but commercially disappointing. The novel was considered for television adaptations by the

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but ultimately discounted.

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* 1957 French novels Novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet Metafictional novels {{1950s-novel-stub