Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 5/3/2009, 14:13:44, in reply to "Re: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy - This post contains SPOLIERS"
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Well, I finished "Jealousy" last night, and just as you all did, I enjoyed it very much. The Frenchly neurotical depictions of everything in detail is reflective, I think, of the obsessive state of mind of the narrator. This novel is a marvel of technique and innovation, a truly avant-garde work. It's like seeing everything under a microscope, taking notice of every little detail and giving it relevance. I don't have much to add to this interesting thread, except probably that this is one of those books which everyone reads in a different fashion. The attentive and narrow scope of the vision of things allows for many personal interpretations. It's easy to see that Franck is not a very likeable person, but A is harder to decipher. Is she an adulterous, mean woman shamefully cheating on her husband? Is she a lonely woman who has an honest friendship with the neighbor? Jealousy usually is a very destructive emotion, and many people, frequently very insecure, see unfatihfulness where there is none. But since we only get the narrator's obsessive perspective, it's hard to know the truth.
I started right away with "In the Labyrinth", which so far I've enjoyed.
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: Maybe you all know this, but I think that's a Balzac
: joke. Balzac wanted the novel to compete with the
: civil register.
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: I found this
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhZjY7T07E . I don't
: know if it's worth watching or not. It's quite long.
: I've given you part two of ten. Part one was some old
: guy taking seven minutes to introduce Robbe-Grillet.
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