An antinovel is any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel, and instead establishes its own conventions.
An antinovel is any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel, and instead establishes its own conventions.
==Origin of the term== thumb|left|200px|Jean-Paul Sartre coined the term "antinovel" The term ("anti-roman" in French) was brought into modern literary discourse by the French philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre in his introduction to Nathalie Sarraute's 1948 work Portrait d’un inconnu (Portrait of a Man Unknown). However the term "anti-roman" (anti-novel) had been used by Charles Sorel in 1633 to describe the parodic nature of his prose fiction Le Berger extravagant.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).