Roman à thèse

A Roman à thèse (French: 'thesis novel') is a novel which is didactic or which expounds a theory.[1] Scholar Susan Suleiman talked about "authoritarian fiction"[2]

List of romans à thèse

  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima

See also

  • Bildungsroman
  • Philosophical fiction
  • Roman-fleuve

References

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, roman à thèse, n.
  2. ^ Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre. Princeton University Press. 1993.


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