Jealousy

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He is best known as the pioneering spokesman of the Nouveau Roman (new novel), a greatly influential movement in post-war French fiction. Jealousy is most famous work.

In his most famous and perhaps most typical work, Robbe-Grillet explores his principle preoccupation- the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation, and the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person, never speaks and never acts. He is a point of observation, his personality only to be guessed at, watching every movement of the other characters ' actions as they flash like moving pictures across the distorting screen of a jealous mind. The result is one of the most important and influential books of our time, a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.