nouveau roman
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of nouveau roman
literally: new novel
Example Sentences
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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 • Mar. 15, 2022
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 • Aug. 10, 2018
As narrative, the war on terror has been like the nouveau roman, with no coherent plot, only jarring disjunctions of cause and effect, time and place.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015
It’s fun to watch critics crawl all over the map trying to situate Leyner in some tradition, any tradition — metafiction, nouveau roman, etc.
From Time • Apr. 11, 2012
The French practitioners of the nouveau roman such as Nathalie Sarraute dabbled in it.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010
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