anti-novel

And another very intelligent, perceptive man, Rich Puchalsky, developed an interesting trash-aesthetic argument: The foremost anti-novel is Aldiss' Report on Probability A -- I have a post about it somewhere on my blog rpuchalsky.blogspot.com.

Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010

The foremost anti-novel is Aldiss' Report on Probability A -- I have a post about it somewhere on my blog rpuchalsky.blogspot.com.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 11: Knife of Dreams (2005) Adam Roberts 2010

As you know, Bob, but as other readers of comment boxes may not, Brian Aldiss wrote an amazing anti-novel in Report on Probability A -- a book in which nothing happens and the reader is snowed in, buried under a layer of incessant, irrelevant description.

Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000) Adam Roberts 2010

And another very intelligent, perceptive man, Rich Puchalsky, developed an interesting trash-aesthetic argument: The foremost anti-novel is Aldiss' Report on Probability A -- I have a post about it somewhere on my blog rpuchalsky.blogspot.com.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005) Adam Roberts 2010

To complaints of this kind — which have been voiced with regard to the earlier books as well — defenders of Rushdie have responded by arguing that he works, and should therefore be read, within two narrative traditions: of the Western novel (with its subgenre, the anti-novel à la Tristram Shandy), and of Eastern story-cycles like the Panchatantra, with their chainlike linking of self-contained, shorter narratives.

Palimpsest Regained Coetzee, J.M. 1996

Moreover, the character of arts included in the system has changed: a new architecture, abstract painting and sculpture, music in a twelve-tone scale, and the anti-novel have appeared.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968

They do not have to be, I think, but in a time of non-students and anti-novel, the non-review was destined to appear.

Every Man His Myth Wexler, Victor 1967

We object precisely to its absurdity; if that's a novel, we say, I'm going to write an anti-novel.

Life and Death of the Novel Kermode, Frank 1965

Then the anti-novel — Joseph Andrews, Love and Freindship I regard as anti-novels avant la lettre — points the way to a new novel, a new convention; once again strong minds are revolted by arbitrariness and absurdity.

Life and Death of the Novel Kermode, Frank 1965

C is a 1960s-style anti-novel that's fundamentally hostile to the notion of character and dramatises, or encodes, a set of ideas concerning subjectivity.

The Guardian World News 2010