In the present text, the author focuses on Sartre’s influence on the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Sartre’s text that seems to have represented a major source of inspiration for Robbe-Grillet’s writing is a short 1939 essay entitled „Intentionality: A Fundamental Idea of Husserl’s Phenomenology“, where Sartre refuses the idea of knowledge as an absorption of objects in subject’s interiority. In the second part of the present paper, the author offers a close reading of Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy to support this view, concentrating in particular on the problem of affectivity.
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