Nouveau roman

The term nouveau roman (French for new novel ) was used for the first time by the literary critic Émile Henriot and refers to a resultant in France experimental literature form the 1950s to the 1970s, turning away from the classic novel in the tradition of Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert and no interpretation and evaluation of the one described propagated.

After a classification of B. Menne Coenen - Meier are the most important representatives of the New Novel Alain Robbe- Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Claude Ollier and Jean Ricardou. Pioneer for the new type of literature have included Samuel Beckett and Sarraute, covering aspects of the conventional novel as a strictly - chronological narrative leadership, an individual characterization of the characters and subjectivity not considered in their works and the idea of ​​literature as a moral or political force to counter the prevailing.

The authors of the Nouveau Roman attempt to describe the world from a neutral position possible narrative that receives only the visible. Relevant is only the superficiality of the material world, their meaning can not be pushed forward. At best, the reader is left to the discovery of meaning.

In Germany were particularly visible in Peter Weiss ( The Shadow of the Coachman's Body, written 1952, published 1960) and Ror Wolf ( continuation of the report, 1964) from the Nouveau Roman influences.

Central was the Nouveau Roman of the early German poetry in the context of pop art. Dieter Weller Hoff developed on the basis of the concept of the New Realism, which was for the young writers such as Rolf Dieter Brinkmann to a basic size.

" The authors of the Nouveau Roman, which picked up the narrative categories of space, time, causality and subject to heretical - disturbing way, had a number of models in common -. Marcel Proust, André Gide, William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, James Joyce "