Speedboat blurred traditional narrative and character development with the authority of a French antinovel. |
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. |
The structuralist vogue also affected the novelists who, beginning in the mid-1950s, leunouveaue nouveau roman, the antinovel. |
It was Frank Kermode's suggestion that Snow was writing a kind of antinovel in reaction against the experimental fiction of pure form. |
A good example of the consistent antinovel is Joyce's Ulysses. |
It's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author. |