Nouveau Roman
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Nouveau Roman is a mid-20th-century French literary movement that radically experimented with narrative form, character, and plot to challenge traditional novelistic conventions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nouveau Roman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5593785 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nouveau Roman Context triple: [Les Éditions de Minuit, movement, Nouveau Roman]
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Nouveau Réalisme
Nouveau Réalisme was a 1960s French art movement that embraced everyday objects, urban detritus, and performative actions to challenge traditional notions of art and representation.
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B.
Noucentisme
Noucentisme was an early 20th-century Catalan cultural and artistic movement that promoted classical order, civic values, and Mediterranean rationalism in reaction against the romanticism and ornamentation of Modernisme.
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C.
İkinci Yeni
İkinci Yeni was a mid-20th-century Turkish literary movement known for its abstract, experimental, and highly metaphorical poetry that broke with traditional forms and meanings.
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D.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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E.
La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste was an influential early Surrealist magazine published in Paris in the 1920s that served as a key platform for the movement’s manifestos, artworks, and experimental writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nouveau Roman Target entity description: Nouveau Roman is a mid-20th-century French literary movement that radically experimented with narrative form, character, and plot to challenge traditional novelistic conventions.
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A.
Nouveau Réalisme
Nouveau Réalisme was a 1960s French art movement that embraced everyday objects, urban detritus, and performative actions to challenge traditional notions of art and representation.
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B.
Noucentisme
Noucentisme was an early 20th-century Catalan cultural and artistic movement that promoted classical order, civic values, and Mediterranean rationalism in reaction against the romanticism and ornamentation of Modernisme.
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C.
İkinci Yeni
İkinci Yeni was a mid-20th-century Turkish literary movement known for its abstract, experimental, and highly metaphorical poetry that broke with traditional forms and meanings.
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D.
L’Esprit Nouveau
L’Esprit Nouveau was an influential early 20th-century avant-garde magazine co-founded by Le Corbusier that promoted modernist ideas in art, architecture, and design.
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E.
La Révolution surréaliste
La Révolution surréaliste was an influential early Surrealist magazine published in Paris in the 1920s that served as a key platform for the movement’s manifestos, artworks, and experimental writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French literary movement
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literary movement ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Essais sur le roman
NERFINISHED
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Pour un nouveau roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1970s ⓘ |
| field | literature ⓘ |
| genre | novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
ambiguity of perspective
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anti-psychological approach ⓘ challenge to traditional novelistic conventions ⓘ detailed description ⓘ focus on objects and surfaces ⓘ formal experimentation ⓘ fragmented narrative ⓘ impersonal narrative voice ⓘ minimal psychological characterization ⓘ non-linear time ⓘ questioning of realism ⓘ rejection of traditional plot ⓘ self-reflexive narration ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
anti-hero
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decentered subject ⓘ objectivity of description ⓘ open-ended narrative ⓘ reader participation in meaning ⓘ |
| hasPart | École du regard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception |
1950s
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
experimental fiction
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metafiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
existentialism
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modernism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainSubject | experimental fiction ⓘ |
| movement | postwar French literature ⓘ |
| notableAuthor |
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Claude Ollier NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Ricardou NERFINISHED ⓘ Marguerite Duras NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Butor NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathalie Sarraute NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Pinget NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Histoire
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Jealousy NERFINISHED ⓘ La Jalousie NERFINISHED ⓘ La Mise en scène NERFINISHED ⓘ La Modification NERFINISHED ⓘ La Route des Flandres NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Voyeur NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Gommes NERFINISHED ⓘ Moderato cantabile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | 20th century literature ⓘ |
| publisher | Éditions de Minuit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Nouveau Roman Description of subject: Nouveau Roman is a mid-20th-century French literary movement that radically experimented with narrative form, character, and plot to challenge traditional novelistic conventions.
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