On the other hand, relying on Michael Warner (who speaks about Thoreau's desire of new sensuality for yet unimaginable libidinous relationships, especially with other men, as well as about his erotics being equivalent to political liberation from the economic orientation of productivity) and Henry Abelove (who suggests that Thoreau's Walden is void of love, marriage, and domesticity and hence an
antinovel never catering politically to reproductive heteronormativity), Azzarello argues that "Thoreau's turn to 'queer nature' is motivated more by political commitments" (48).
But Kundera rejects the kind of history that breaks with the past, criticizing the surrealists' denigration of the novel and the later glorification of the
antinovel.
As noted in the "Preface," the novel (or
antinovel) is composed of one long chapter and includes around 60 characters, 21 stories and 180 breaks in the narrative.
Not only does Austen mock the common cant by putting conventional
antinovel sentiments into the mouth of the egregious John Thorpe, but more significantly, when Catherine apologizes to witty Henry Tilney for reading Udolpho, sadly conceding that "'gentlemen read better books,'" he cheerfully asserts, "'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
"Manley", as Warner concludes, "recuperates the
antinovel discourse for a distinctly novelistic pleasure" (Warner 1998:110).
It was Frank Kermode's suggestion that Snow was writing a kind of
antinovel in reaction against the experimental fiction of pure form.
A good example of the consistent
antinovel is Joyce's Ulysses.
The project is underpinned by a lengthy opening chapter by Remo Ceserani and Pierluigi Pellini, which ambitiously raises many issues regarding the development of the Italian novel, including the late arrival of the novel in Italy, linguistic issues surrounding its evolution, and the simultaneous development of the novel and
antinovel traditions in Italy (with Foscolo's Ortis).
For example, she claims that Arqueles Velas is a forerunner of the Latin American
antinovel and antinovelists such as J.