Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others. In Jealousy , a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife’s every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown city. From these deceptively simple premises, Alain Robbe-Grillet produced two of the most effectin