The original French title of this novel puns on the windows of the plantation on which it is set, and the emotions of the unnamed narrator, who repeatedly runs through the same events.
Two characters in this novel frequently discuss a novel about colonial Africa that they are both reading, whose heroine is compared to the wife of one of those characters in her intolerance of the climate. One character mulls over the phrase "Forgive me, again, for being such a bad mechanic," which one character says after claiming to have had engine trouble with his new sedan when he went to the port with another character. A stain is left on the dining room wall after one of the characters uses his napkin to crush a Scutigera (*) centipede, in a scene that recurs throughout this novel. The original French title of this novel puns on the windows of the plantation on which it is set, and the emotions of the unnamed narrator, who repeatedly runs through the same events. For 10 points, name this novel in which the narrator believes his wife A... and his neighbor Franck are having an affair, a nouveau roman by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Two characters in this novel frequently discuss a novel about colonial Africa that they are both reading, whose heroine is compared to the wife of one of those characters in her intolerance of the climate.
Jealousy [or La Jalousie]