Nouveau Roman

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Nouveau Roman is a mid-20th-century French literary movement that radically experimented with narrative form, character, and plot to challenge traditional novelistic conventions.

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instanceOf French literary movement
literary movement
countryOfOrigin France
describedIn Essais sur le roman NERFINISHED
Pour un nouveau roman NERFINISHED
endTime 1970s
field literature
genre novel
hasCharacteristic ambiguity of perspective
anti-psychological approach
challenge to traditional novelistic conventions
detailed description
focus on objects and surfaces
formal experimentation
fragmented narrative
impersonal narrative voice
minimal psychological characterization
non-linear time
questioning of realism
rejection of traditional plot
self-reflexive narration
hasConcept anti-hero
decentered subject
objectivity of description
open-ended narrative
reader participation in meaning
hasPart École du regard NERFINISHED
inception 1950s
mid-20th century
influenced experimental fiction
metafiction
postmodern literature
influencedBy existentialism
modernism
phenomenology
structuralism
language French
mainSubject experimental fiction
movement postwar French literature
notableAuthor Alain Robbe-Grillet NERFINISHED
Claude Ollier NERFINISHED
Claude Simon NERFINISHED
Jean Ricardou NERFINISHED
Marguerite Duras NERFINISHED
Michel Butor NERFINISHED
Nathalie Sarraute NERFINISHED
Robert Pinget NERFINISHED
notableWork Histoire NERFINISHED
Jealousy NERFINISHED
La Jalousie NERFINISHED
La Mise en scène NERFINISHED
La Modification NERFINISHED
La Route des Flandres NERFINISHED
Le Voyeur NERFINISHED
Les Gommes NERFINISHED
Moderato cantabile NERFINISHED
period 20th century literature
publisher Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED

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Les Éditions de Minuit movement Nouveau Roman