Roman à thèse explained

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

Notes and References

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