Posted by joffre on 14/2/2009, 14:35:37, in reply to "Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy - This post contains SPOLIERS"
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Excellent. I'll start reading Jealousy tomorrow or Monday. You seem to like it more than I do. I don't dislike it, but I'm not crazy about it. I first read it last January, and then I read it again a couple months later. After reading In the Labyrinth, I decided to reread all the R-G I'd read. Now he seems to have become one of my obsessions, though probably the one I least enjoy. Once I read these two again now, I'll have read five R-G novels a total of thirteen times.
I think I like Jealousy the best, but I think I find In the Labyrinth the most fascinating. Jealousy has great atmosphere, I think. And it's not really hard to follow as the later books are.
I am pretty sure that diagram was drawn by R-G.
I agree the use of initials for names can be annoying. I think that in older books it was sometimes used to give the impression that the events were real and identities were being protected. In Jealousy, it might be possible to think that the narrator can't bring himself to name A.
Right now, I'm reading Dead Souls, and I've been somewhat disappointed with it.
