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Nouveau Roman By Baetens, Jan; Langlois, Christopher

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1727-1
Published: 01/10/2017
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The ‘Nouveau Roman’ or ‘New Novel’ is used to refer to a literary and critical movement in France during the 1950s and early 1960s. Later, more experimental developments in the late 1960s and early 1970s will be labeled the ‘New New Novel’. Although the Nouveau Roman quickly became associated with the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, and Robert Pinget, to name only the most notable, it never crystallized into so dogmatic an ideology of literature and art as had the Surrealism of André Breton during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Baetens, Jan and Christopher Langlois. Nouveau Roman. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/nouveau-roman.

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