In his most famous and perhaps most typical work Robbe-Grillet explores his principal
preoccupation: the meaning of reality. The novel is set on a tropical banana plantation and
the action is seen through the eyes of a narrator who never appears in person never speaks and
never acts. He is a point of observation his personality only to be guessed at watching every
movement of the other characters' actions as they flash like moving pictures across the
distorting screen of a jealous mind.The result is one of the most important and influential
books of our time a completely integrated masterpiece that has already become a classic.
