Two Novels: Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

Here, in one volume, are two remarkable novels by the chief spokesman of the so-called "new novel" which has caused such discussion and aroused such controversy. "Jealousy, " said the New York Times Book Review "is a technical masterpiece, impeccably contrived." "It is an exhilarating challenge, " said the San Francisco Chronicle.

One of the most discussed and controversial writers of the postwar era, Alain Robbe-Grillet, along with Nathalie Sarraute, pioneered the nouveau roman. His first novel, The Erasers, was published in 1953. In 1955 he wrote The Voyeur, for which he received one of the most important French literary awards, the Prix des Critiques. Other novels include Project for a Revolution in New York, La Maison de Rendez-vous, and Djinn. Ghosts in the Mirror, the first volume of a projected three, was published by Grove in 1990.