This book, first published in 1984, is based on readings of the
novels of three major representative practitioners of the nouveau
roman. Since its beginnings in the 1950s the nouveau roman has
posed a major challenge to the theory of the novel because its
practitioners claimed to have jettisoned the mainstays of
nineteenth-century fiction: plot, character and the representation
of reality. Consequently the nouveau roman has tended to generate
radical or even subversive theories of the novel which have little
to contribute to our understanding of the main stream of the genre.
In this study, Ann Jefferson reassesses the theoretical
implications of the nouveau roman and the terms in which fiction is
generally defined, in order to demonstrate that the nouveau roman,
far from being anti-fiction, is both profoundly novelistic and
extremely instructive about the nature of fiction in general.
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