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‖ nouveau roman|nuvo rɔmɑ̃|
[Fr., lit. new novel.]
‘A type of novel developed chiefly in France in the 1960's by such writers as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, and Claude Mauriac, characterized by lack of moral, social, or psychological comment and by precise descriptions that suggest the mental state of the person experiencing or seeing them.’ (C. L. Barnhart et al. Dict. New Eng. (1973).)
1961Listener 24 Aug. 289/1 The Key..reads very like something young and French: it has the soberness of the nouveau roman. 1962Times 13 Dec. 14/3 The nouveau roman is already a bit vieux jeu in France. 1965Harper's Mag. July 112 The characters are many and the story jumps from one to another, often (in the manner of the nouveau roman) with no names other than ‘he’ or ‘the boy’ to tell you whose episode it is. 1965New Society 12 Aug. 26/3 The author obviously owes a big debt both to Beckett and to the French exponents of the nouveau roman, with their insistent emphasis on the depiction of physical detail and visual objectivity. 1967Listener 23 Mar. 391/3 One of the most successful recent attempts, for instance, is to be found in a novel by one of Robbe-Grillet's fellow-practitioners of the nouveau roman, Michel Butor's Passing Time, which combines a narrative giving us the hero's present experience and a diary containing his experiences of several months before. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 69/2 The sources of Mr Gordon's off-the-peg technique are fairly clear: some Kafka; the Burroughs scissors; but mostly the nouveau roman. The novel, so this modish dogma asserts, is a ‘vision of things’, and the universe no more than the sum of the author's sensations. |