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 <sup>th</sup> 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 <sup>th</sup> century and the postmodernist literature.