New novel. New movie

Author: Claude Thomasse
Publisher:
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A 128-page book attempts to cover the broad and complex fields of the New Novel and New Cinema, as if taking a gamble. First, because the related concepts are vague, making it extremely difficult for any attempt to establish this as a clearly defined research subject and determine its internal practices, which is riddled with problems. Also, because such an attempt can only condense content, coupled with its all-encompassing nature, it forces the neglect of the distinctive writing techniques that constitute the characteristics of each work from the outset. This leads to the disappointment of both the author and the readers of this book, much like the hesitation shown by the New Novelists when they were lumped under the same label of "" (a junk drawer and a microscope). As M. Bierce wrote in CV (1996), he lamented being labeled, "It sticks to my skin! It still does, in school textbooks or dictionaries, Bierce is the New Novel! As if my work had stopped in 1960." As for C. Simon, in his recent Gardens (or Gardens?), he mocks the self-referential of the 1960s New Novel and calls for something that can distance the New Novel from this.
A 128-page book attempts to cover the broad and complex fields of the New Novel and New Cinema, as if taking a gamble. First, because the related concepts are vague, making it extremely difficult for any attempt to establish this as a clearly defined research subject and determine its internal practices, which is riddled with problems. Also, because such an attempt can only condense content, coupled with its all-encompassing nature, it forces the neglect of the distinctive writing techniques that constitute the characteristics of each work from the outset. This leads to the disappointment of both the author and the readers of this book, much like the hesitation shown by the New Novelists when they were lumped under the same label of "" (a junk drawer and a microscope). As M. Bierce wrote in CV (1996), he lamented being labeled, "It sticks to my skin! It still does, in school textbooks or dictionaries, Bierce is the New Novel! As if my work had stopped in 1960." As for C. Simon, in his recent Gardens (or Gardens?), he mocks the self-referential of the 1960s New Novel and calls for something that can distance the New Novel from this.