The Nouveau Roman flourished in France roughly from the 1950s through the 1970s. The loosely associated figures who acted as protagonists of the New Novel include Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Ricardou, Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, and others. The New Novel took issue with the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel, best represented […]
