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nouveau roman

nouveau roman noun: a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.

Noun

nouveau roman (plural nouveaux romans)

  1. A type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.

Forms of nouveau roman

pluralnouveaux romans

Origin of nouveau roman

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau roman (literally “new novel”); coined by Émile Henriot in the newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957.

Questions about nouveau roman

What does nouveau roman mean?
Nouveau roman means a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.
What part of speech is nouveau roman?
Nouveau roman is a noun.
What is the plural of nouveau roman?
The plural of nouveau roman is nouveaux romans.

Words near nouveau roman in the dictionary

  1. nouthetic
  2. nouts
  3. nouveau
  4. nouveau pauvre
  5. nouveau riche
  6. nouveau roman
  7. nouveau romancier
  8. nouveau réalisme
  9. nouveaus
  10. nouveaux
  11. nouveaux pauvres

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