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  • 28 - Suspicion and Novelty: The Nouveau Roman

  • from Part IV - From Naturalism to the Nouveau Roman
  • Edited by Adam Watt, University of Exeter
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
    Published online:
    04 February 2021
    Print publication:
    25 February 2021, pp 508-522

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that the postwar nouveau roman is more than an avant-garde experiment in novel form. The movement must also be understood as the product of a particular publishing house (Les Editions de Minuit) and as an aesthetic phenomenon that registers historical trauma, despite its apparent withdrawal from the social. Special attention is paid to convergences and divergences among authors, including Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Michel Butor, Robert Pinget, Claude Simon, and Samuel Beckett.