Postcard, 1973 octobre 20, Albuquerque [to] Frederic C. St. Aubyn, Pittsburgh / Michel Butor.

St. Aubyn, Frederic C. (Frederic Chase), 1921-

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Butor, Michel

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Michel Butor, French novelist, essayist and scholar, was born in 1926 in Monsen-Baroeul, Nord, France. He was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris during the 1940s and held teaching positions at a number of European and American universities throughout his academic career. He was an international figure in the development of the contemporary novel as a literary genre. Specifically, Butor expounded the nouveau roman, or 'new novel, ' in which novelists sought to change the expectations of readers by...