Plotlessness
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Plotlessness refers to fiction lacking plots.
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Plotless literature
18th century
- Tristram Shandy (1759), Laurence Sterne
19th century
- Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) by Flaubert
- A Rebours (1884) by Huysmans
- Elbow-Room; A Novel Without a Plot (1876) is a novel by Charles Heber Clark
20th century
In modernist literature, plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. Taking this to the extreme, we come to the anti-novel of the mid twentieth century.
Examples
- In Search of Lost Time (1913 - 1927 ) by Proust
- Raymond Carver’s short stories
- Nicholson Baker's novels
Plot-driven literature
See also
- Boredom
- Digression
- Narratology
- Kitchen sink drama
- non narrative
- Psychological novel
- Slice of life story
- Stream of consciousness
- Sketch story
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