| Digressions are usually considered a characteristic feature of the antinovel tradition. |
| But Rowson's Tristram Shandy is an antinovel not about WRITING but about READING Sterne's Tristram Shandy. |
| Speedboat blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel. |
| It's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author. |
| The two terms most heard in connection with the French antinovel are chosisme and tropisme. |
| The antinovel usually fragments and distorts the experience of its characters, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative. |
