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• Schools, Styles, and Forms - antinovel: piece of prose fiction lacking some elements of novel structure, such as plot or character development

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Jean-Paul Sartre coined the term "antinovel"

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An antinovel is any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel. The term was coined by the French philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre. The antinovel usually fragments and distorts the experience of its characters, forcing the reader to construct the reality of the story from a disordered narrative.

Notable examples of antinovels are Report on Probability A by Brian Aldiss, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar and Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - antiroman

Nederlands (Dutch)
antiroman

Français (French)
n. - antiroman

Deutsch (German)
n. - Antiroman, (bricht mit formalen Gattungskonventionen)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αντιμυθιστόρημα

Italiano (Italian)
antiromanzo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - obra (f) de ficção que rompe com as características tradicionais de uma novela, antinovela (f) (Lit.)

Русский (Russian)
роман, в котором нарушается традиционное развитие сюжета

Español (Spanish)
n. - antinovela

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - antinovell

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
故意不按传统小说作法写成的小说

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 故意不按傳統小說作法寫成的小說

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 반소설(전통적 수법에서 벗어난 소설)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - アンチロマン

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لاروايه : روايه تنقصها عناصر الروايه التقليديه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רומן בו מופרות בכוונה המוסכמות של כתיבת רומנים, רומן לא-שגרתי, אנטי-רומן‬

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