Product Description: Resounding quarrels, proclamations, and repudiations have punctuated the story of modern French literature. Recently the New Novelists were shouting their assertions and denunciations while the old guard replied with sneers and shrugs...read more

Product Description: The most significant development in recent French fiction is the nouveau roman, the 'new novel,' which was first noticed in the mid-1950's and has subsequently become influential throughout the world. Characterized by a disregard for chronology, prominence given to objects and space, substitution of pattern for plot, unorthodox treatment of dialogue, and a new approach to character, it has intrigued, and occasionally antagonized, both critics and general readers in its repudiation of the traditional Balzacian novel form...read more