A roman à thèse (French: 'thesis novel') is a novel which is didactic or which expounds a theory. Scholar Susan Suleiman talked about "authoritarian fiction"
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
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, roman à thèse, n.
- Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre. Princeton University Press. 1993.
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