European critics and cultural audiences are more predisposed than Americans to identify groups, whether they be composed of artists who consciously band together (e.g., Surrealists, Fluxus) or of artists whose works are perceived to be similar, perhaps because they arrived at roughly the same time (e.g., Generation of
). The epithet ‘
98New French Novel
identifies several French fiction writers who first became prominent in the late 1950s, differences among them notwithstanding. Nathalie Sarraute (1900)...
