Nouveau roman
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The Nouveau Roman is a type of French novel in the 1950s and 60s that diverged from traditional literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the term in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Seminar with Jean Ricardou and Claude Simon, Cerisy (France)
Contemporary literature workshop with Marc Avelot, Philippe Binant, Bernard Magné, Claudette Oriol-Boyer, Jean Ricardou, Cerisy (France), 1980
Nathalie Sarraute
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Nathalie Sarraute was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten.
Nouveau roman
…group of writers dubbed Nouveaux Romanciers, "new novelists", emerged in the mid-1950s. Vivian Mercier considered Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute to be the core of the group, becoming known through their theoretical writings about their writing practices in addition to their novels. This group…
Nathalie Sarraute (1986)
Enfance (Childhood). The cover of Sarraute's autobiography, published in 1983
Le planétarium (The Planetarium). The cover of Sarraute's 1959 novel