antinovelist

plural antinovelists

1. literatureA writer of antinovels.

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

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

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

   1995, Dennis Porter, Rousseau's legacy: emergence and eclipse of the writer in France

   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 […]

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