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chosisme

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Also known as: chosiste

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anti-novel

  • To the Lighthouse
    In novel: Character

    Thus, in books termed chosiste (literally “thing-ist”), they make the furniture of a room more important than its human incumbents. This may be seen as a transitory protest against the long predominance of character in the novel, but, even on the popular level, there have been indications that readers…

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  • To the Lighthouse
    In novel: Antinovel

    …with the French antinovel are chosisme and tropisme. The first, with which Robbe-Grillet is chiefly associated, relates to the novelist’s concern with things in themselves, not things as human symbols or metaphors. The second, which provided a title for Nathalie Sarraute’s early novel, denotes the response of the human mind…

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