A review by upward_not_northward
Jealousy & in the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

I feel like you either like this type of writing or you don't. These are difficult novels in that they are slow, almost entirely objectively narrated, and both invoke a sense of unease in the reader as if something is continually on the precipice of happening but never quite does. There are recurring themes of déjà vu in both novels and a heavy sense of voyeurism in 'Jealousy.' If you've seen and liked Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) which Robbe-Grillet wrote, you'll enjoy these novels.