nouveau roman

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nouveau roman /ˌnuːvəʊ rəʊˈmɑːn/

▶noun a style of avant-garde French novel which rejected traditional novelistic conventions in an attempt to reflect the sometimes random nature of experience.

– origin Fr., lit. ‘new novel’.

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