La Jalousie La Jalousie La Jalousie (Jealousy) is a 1957 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. The French title: "la jalousie" is a play on words that can be translated as "jealousy", but also as "the jalousie window". The jealous husband in the novel spies on his wife through the Venetian blind-like slats of the jalousie windows of their home. "La Jalousie" is one of critics' and literary theorists' main examples of Robbe-Grillet's demonstrations of his concept of the nouveau roman, for which he later explicitly advocated in his 1963 "Pour un nouveau roman" ("For a New Novel"). Robbe-Grillet argued that the novel was
Palladian architecture closed, or merely hinted at in the design by pilasters, and sometimes in very late examples of English Palladianism adapted to become a porte-cochere; in America, the Palladian portico regained its full glory. One house which clearly shows this Palladian-Gibbs influence is Mount Airy, in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1758–62. At Westover the north and south entrances, made of imported Portland stone, were patterned after a plate in William Salmon's "Palladio Londinensis" (1734). The distinctive feature of Drayton Hall, its two-storey portico, was derived directly from Palladio. The neoclassical presidential mansion, the White House in Washington, was inspired by