Passing Time Author:Michel Butor Michel Butor's name is always associated with the new French novelists who are grouped together as nouveaux romanciers or "new novelists". But "Passing Time" is not a book that offers much stylistic difficulty to the reader and it can be considered as a conventional novel on a very high level. It belongs to the new school principally because of ... more »the detailed descriptions of places, things, and events, which take on a special significance in the mind of the narrator, thus making a major contribution to the narrative on a psychological level.« less