Le Maintien de l’ordre
Encyclopedia
Le Maintien de l’ordre (Gallimard, 1961), translated as Law and Order, is the title of a novel
by French
writer Claude Ollier
written in classic nouveau roman
style. The novel is divided into three parts, and is written primarily in the third-person, objective narrative mode.
for Red Dust in 1971.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
writer Claude Ollier
Claude Ollier
Claude Ollier is a French writer closely associated with Alain Robbe-Grillet and the nouveau roman literary movement. He was the first winner of the Prix Médicis which he received for his novel La Mise en scène.-Works:...
written in classic nouveau roman
Nouveau roman
The nouveau roman is a type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the title in an article in the popular French newspaper Le Monde on May 22, 1957 to describe certain writers who experimented with style in each novel, creating an essentially new...
style. The novel is divided into three parts, and is written primarily in the third-person, objective narrative mode.
English translations
Le Maintien de l’ordre was translated by Ursule MolinaroUrsule Molinaro
Ursule Molinaro was a prolific novelist, playwright, translator and visual artist, the author of 12 novels, two collections of short prose works, innumerable short stories for literary magazines and dozens of translations from the French and German...
for Red Dust in 1971.