antinovelist

antinovelist

English

Etymology

antinovel +‎ -ist or anti- +‎ novelist

Noun

antinovelist (plural antinovelists)

1. (literature) A writer of antinovels.
   • 1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France

     The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […]

   • 1997, Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel

     But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […]

   • 2000, Roger Shattuck, Candor and perversion: literature, education, and the arts

     At no point in her writing does Mary Lee Settle become an antinovelist or a player of literary games.

Translations

a writer of antinovels

Russian: антироманист (ru) m (antiromanist)

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