BUTOR, Michel

First connected to the Nouveau Roman school that emerged in France in the late 1950s, Butor has remained the most experimental of that bunch, working in various innovative ways, including extended criticism. Beginning in the 1960s, after securing a modest fame, he explored alternative structures and typographical possibilities, particularly in Mobile (1963), a detailed but elliptical portrait of America as seen not from the road but from the air, as though the author were a helicopter landing here...