nouveau roman

English

Etymology

French nouveau roman, literally "new novel"; coined by Émile Henriot in the newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957.

Noun

nouveau roman (plural nouveaux romans)

  1. (literature) A type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.
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