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- noun A work of fiction in which the author breaks in some way the conventional rules of short story telling, usually with some feature (for example, a lack of plot or characters, unusual punctuation, odd subject or presentation, etc.) which strongly challenges the reader's expectations.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meantime, I'm working on Chapter One of the "other" story (so as not to say "anti-story"): a behind-the-scenes script of this fluffy French existence: who knows if, or when, such a book will ever see the light of day or whether some stories aren't best left to bask in the cool shade of an incognito garden.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Meantime, I'm working on Chapter One of the "other" story (so as not to say "anti-story"): a behind-the-scenes script of this fluffy French existence: who knows if, or when, such a book will ever see the light of day or whether some stories aren't best left to bask in the cool shade of an incognito garden.
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Meantime, I'm working on Chapter One of the "other" story (so as not to say "anti-story"): a behind-the-scenes script of this fluffy French existence: who knows if, or when, such a book will ever see the light of day or whether some stories aren't best left to bask in the cool shade of an incognito garden.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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There are also two pieces in there from James Joyce who in that Grossman piece is included in the “anti-story” camp, despite Ulysses taking its story from one of the oldest ones there is, The Odyssey.
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Meantime, I'm working on Chapter One of the "other" story so as not to say "anti-story": a behind-the-scenes script of this fluffy French existence: who knows if, or when, such a book will ever see the light of day or whether some stories aren't best left to bask in the cool shade of an incognito garden.
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Meantime, I'm working on Chapter One of the "other" story so as not to say "anti-story": a behind-the-scenes script of this fluffy French existence: who knows if, or when, such a book will ever see the light of day or whether some stories aren't best left to bask in the cool shade of an incognito garden.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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If he pours enough anti-story into the sea of stories, all will be over.
Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie Fenton, James 1991
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He has discovered that for every story there is an anti-story.
Keeping Up with Salman Rushdie Fenton, James 1991
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Canabalt shows that great games can be resolutely anti-story.
Slate Magazine Leigh Alexander, Jamin Brophy-Warren, Mitch Krpat 2009
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We can also see Otomo's "anti-story tendencies" in the irregularities of the story in works such as his 1976 "Okasu" or the 1977 "Uchuu Patrol Shigema".
Anime Nano! 2009
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