Alain Robbe-Grillet

Jealousy

Experimental novel depicting marital jealousy and emotional corruption in a colonial colony

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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet

French author and leading theorist of the Nouveau Roman who rejected psychological depth and traditional storytelling in favor of objective description. The Voyeur and Jealousy are key texts of French literary modernism.

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