A (French; ) is a novel which is didactic or which expounds a theory.
In a book on the genre and French examples thereof, Authoritarian Fictions: the Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre, literary scholar Susan Suleiman proposed the definition "a novel written in the realistic mode [...] which signals to the reader as primarily didactic in intent, seeking to demonstrate the validity of a political, philosophical, or religious doctrine."
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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
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