nouveau roman

British  

/ nuvo rɔmɑ̃ /

noun

1. another term for anti-roman See antinovel

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Etymology

Origin of nouveau roman

literally: new novel

Example Sentences

She has rarely appeared in theater productions: Her last stage role was a decade ago, in Christophe Honoré’s “Nouveau Roman.”

From New York Times

With its nouveau roman asceticism, Handke’s writing typically leaves me with a sense of being kept on the outside of something that is cold, severe and not obviously enjoyable.

From New York Times

Not all experimentalists are so keen to advertise their debt to the past, but McCarthy, who reveres French theory and the French nouveau roman but also has a lot of time for Dickens and Plato and Cervantes, is unanxiously frank about the roots of his imagination.

From New York Times

The Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett influences, which are prominent in previous work like “The Pets,” remain, though they are perhaps less pronounced here than the surrealist and nouveau roman touchstones.

From Los Angeles Times

The book is also a descendant of the nouveau roman, taking formal cues from and shaping its particular version of narrative play in the mold of the enigmatic novels of writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor and Nathalie Sarraute.

From Los Angeles Times