Антироманът

The word was first used by Sartre: "One of the most peculiar features of our literary age is that here and there there have appeared stirring and purely negative works which we might call anti-novels. In this category I would place the works of Nabokov, of Evelyn Vaux, and in a certain sense, "The Counterfeiters of Money" (by André Gide). Anti-novels retain the appearance and contours of the novel; they are works of the imagination which present fictitious characters and tell their stories. But this is to disappoint us more: it is a question of questioning the novel itself, at the moment when it seems to us that it is being built, to have it destroyed before our eyes, to write the novel of a novel that does not and cannot be made, to create a fiction that, compared to the great compositions of Dostoevsky and Meredith, is what Miró's painting "The Murder of Painting" is compared to Rembrandt and Rubens.