Antinovel

For the first time, the term “anti-romance” was used in 1633 by the French writer Charles Sorel as the subtitle of his parody work “Le Berger extravagant”, published in the Russian translation under the title “Madcap Shepherd” ^[2] .

In 1948, the term "anti-romance" was returned by Jean-Paul Sartre to the practical dictionary of literary criticism . So he described in the preface the book “Portrait of the Unknown” ( French Portrait d'un inconnu ) born in Russia, a French writer of Jewish origin Natalie Sarrot , who actually became the ancestor of this style ^[3] .

It should be noted that, in fact, there are signs of an antiromanian in a number of works created much earlier than the French mid-20th century. For example, “ Tristram Shandy ” (1759) by the English writer Laurence Stern , where the narration is regularly interrupted by numerous lyrical digressions, conversations with the reader, extraneous stories, and stories about the life of the protagonist’s relatives, which turn the book into a bizarre mixture of ironic and dramatic scenes ^[4] .

The anti-novel, justifying the meaning of the term, is specific for the rejection of the classical elements of the novel, such as, for example, a detailed, consistent plot, heroes with a holistic inner world and character. Antiroman passionlessly analyzes the generally valid, but faceless life situations generated by alienation and conformism . In the presentation, there may be violations of the time sequence, experiments with language, grammar and punctuation, the presence of alternative endings and beginnings, and even printing exercises, such as blank or removable pages, extraneous drawings ^[5] .

• Fernando Pessoa . The Book of Trouble ( The Book of Trouble ) is a posthumously published essay written on behalf of the heteronym Bernard Soares and other writer heteronyms.
• Nabokov V.V. “ Pale Fire ” - is constructed as a chronologically nonlinear 999-line poem with commentary full of literary allusions .
• Julio Cortazar . "Playing the classics" - has an unusual structure. According to the preface left by the writer himself, the book immediately contains “a lot of books”. The author at least offers two reading schemes: the usual one, which includes the first two parts of the novel - “On the Other Side” and “On This Side” and in which it ends the main plot, and reading according to a special scheme, according to which, you should additionally read the chapters from the part "From Other Sides". A reading outline pointer is given at the end of each chapter. It covers all the chapters of the novel, except the penultimate one, the 55th.
• Julio Cortazar . “ 62. Model for assembly ” - is a bunch of storylines, where repetitions and movements should create a feeling of freedom from a rigid causal connection, especially in the nature of the design, where the scope for combinations is even more persistently and imperiously asserted. The result, which, in the opinion of the author, the reader should come to is his personal installation of elements of the narrative ^[6] .

• New romance