| 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. |
| It's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author. |
| The nouveau roman or new novel, sometimes called the antinovel, dispensed with previous notions of plot, character, style, theme, psychology, chronology, and message. |
| The two terms most heard in connection with the French antinovel are chosisme and tropisme. |
| The structuralist vogue also affected the novelists who, beginning in the mid-1950s, leunouveaue nouveau roman, the antinovel. |
