| But Rowson's Tristram Shandy is an antinovel not about WRITING but about READING Sterne's Tristram Shandy. |
| The antinovel usually fragments and distorts the experience of its characters, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative. |
| The nouveau roman or new novel, sometimes called the antinovel, dispensed with previous notions of plot, character, style, theme, psychology, chronology, and message. |
| 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's novel and antinovel, locked in carnal embrace, and fighting it out for the earthly vehicle of the author. |
