La Jalousie
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Alain Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy is set on a banana plantation. Written in the first person and in non-linear sequence, it tells the story of a husband's suspicion that his wife (referred to only as "A...") is having an affair with his neighbour, Franck. Although the narration comes from his perspective alone, the husband never uses first-person pronouns. He recounts events in which he is present as though he were not; his presence there is merely inferred, e.g. by the number of place settings at the dinner table or deck chairs on the verandah. He also describes images that can be read as either fantasy or reality, especially in regard to the affair and to the lovers' deaths. The French title La Jalousie means both "jealousy" and "window blind", or "shutter", and it is with the husband's eyes, through the jalousie, that we see the wife's lover.
