The traditional novel in crisis

A compilation of four essays by Nathalie Sarraute written between 1947 and 1956 that reflect the slow transformation and decadence of the "old novel" to a "new novel" wanting to clean all archaic forms and outmoded style processes .

This book helps us realize the vision of Nathalie Sarraute on the novel at a time when the novel is in crisis. Alain Robbe-Grillet, for a new novel opens the dance of innovation and a new era in which the reader and the novelist "suspicious" character and its spatial-temporal framework.