| It was Frank Kermode's suggestion that Snow was writing a kind of antinovel in reaction against the experimental fiction of pure form. |
| 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. |
| But Kundera rejects the kind of history that breaks with the past, criticizing the surrealists' denigration of the novel and the later glorification of the antinovel. |
| Digressions are usually considered a characteristic feature of the antinovel tradition. |
| A good example of the consistent antinovel is Joyce's Ulysses. |
| The two terms most heard in connection with the French antinovel are chosisme and tropisme. |
