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antinovel
[an-tee-nov-uhl, an-tahy-]
noun
a literary work in which the author rejects the use of traditional elements of novel structure, especially in regard to development of plot and character.
antinovel
/ ˈæԳɪˌɒə /
noun
Also: anti-roman. nouveau roman.a type of prose fiction in which conventional or traditional novelistic elements are rejected
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Other 51Թ Forms
- antinovelist noun
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of antinovel1
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His antinovel resembles books that split commentary on a writer with more personal material — books like Julian Barnes’s novel “Flaubert’s Parrot” and Geoff Dyer’s quasi-biography of D.H.
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“A historical antinovel: overwriting: a stockpot with bony prefixes to season a greasy literary field that has run out of meat.”
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