nouveau roman

 
Pronunciation: /ˌnuːvəʊ rəʊˈmɑːn, nuvo ʀɔmɑ̃/

noun

[mass noun]
  • a style of avant-garde French novel that came to prominence in the 1950s. It rejected the plot, characters, and omniscient narrator central to the traditional novel in an attempt to reflect more faithfully the sometimes random nature of experience.

Origin:

French, literally 'new novel'