antinovel
Sign in to saveAn antinovel is any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel, and instead establishes its own conventions.
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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.