The urban landscape without landscape: the image of the city in the French "new novel"
The article deals with one of the most interesting periods in the development of the French prose - «the new novel» in the middle 20 th century. Experiments in narrative form, the search for a new character and symbolism are reflected in the image of urban space in the works of А. Robbe-Grillet and М. Bûtor. Works of French writers is regarded as a period of development of the novel’s genre, and in the context of the views of French poststructuralists. In the works of А. Robbe-Grillet and М. Butor is temporary and spatial structure of the narrative, the concept of «urban landscape» and even «reality». This article parallels between «new novel» in the middle 20 th century and the postmodernist literature.