The Independent - London, February 19th, 2008
Leading 'new novelist' and film-maker who through his work sought to undo the conventions of fiction
The creation of the nouveau roman, or "new novel", in the 1950s was the intellectual event in France of those years. The five or six writers who helped in it were never a school, but they thought alike in wanting to do away with the wearier conventions of the realist novel. Out went the familiar comforts of a logical plot and distinctive, "believable" characters.
Many novel-readers were not at all taken with this ascetic programme and they were taken least of all with the brash pronouncements...
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