| LC control no. | gf2014026223 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Antinovels |
| Variant(s) | Anti-novels Nouveaux romans |
| See also | Experimental fiction |
| Scope note | Fiction that avoids elements such as plot, dialogue, and character, and focuses instead on sheer perception. |
| Found in | Britannica online academic edition, Nov. 5, 2012 (anti-novel: the movement away from the traditional novel form in France in the form of the nouveau roman tends to an ideal that may be called the anti-novel--a work of the fictional imagination that ignores such properties as plot, dialogue, human interest; individual character is not important, and consciousness dissolves into sheer "perception"; even time is reversible, since perceptions have nothing to do with chronology; New novel: French nouveau roman, also called antinovel) Oxford dictionary of literary terms,via Oxford reference online, Nov. 8, 2012: anti-novel (A form of experimental fiction that dispenses with certain traditional elements of novel-writing like the analysis of characters' states of mind or the unfolding of a sequential plot; the term is usually associated with the French nouveau roman) nouveau roman (The French term ('new novel') applied since the mid-1950s to experimental novels by a group of French writers who rejected many of the traditional elements of novel-writing, such as the sequential plot and the analysis of characters' motives) Analecta Husserliana, vol. CI, 2009: p. 105 (Robbe-Grillet's nouveau romans) |
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