Techniques narratives chez Alain Robbe-Grillet (La Jalousie) et Michel Butor (L’emploi du temps)
Narrative Techniques in Alain Robbe-Grillet (La Jalousie) and Michel Butor (L’emploi du temps)

Summary/Abstract: Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor (in La Jalousie and L'Emploi du temps) use narrative techniques specific for the Nouveau Roman and narrative techniques that are not specific for this literary movement. Their texts impose limits to the interpretation, the reader becomes an active part of the interpretation, the chronology of the two novels is nonlinear, the narrative primarily uses the present tense. Robbe-Grillet uses thorough descriptions and psychology without introspection, techniques which are not specific for the Nouveau Roman. Michel Butor uses the technique of the interior monologue and, in this way, a part of the speech is addressed to the narrator himself, the narrator thus becoming a kind of addressee. For Butor, past times coexist with the present and with that “now” of the narrator.

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