单词 | roman-fleuve |
释义 | roman-fleuven. A connected sequence of self-contained novels which follow the lives or fortunes of an individual, family, society, or the like. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sequence or series of novels comédie humaine1876 roman-fleuve1936 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 121/3 Those great romans-fleuves whose unnumbered volumes have no other purpose than to show us to ourselves as we appear. 1974 Bookseller 15 June 2696/3 He [sc. Anthony Powell] obviously feels reasonably protective towards the maestro of the roman fleuve. 1992 V. Cunningham in M. Bradbury & J. Cooke New Writing 232 The poet and biographer Andrew Motion, for example, has launched himself into what was promised as a grand roman fleuve. 2008 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Nov. (Sat. Review section) 13 In the third part of the Potter roman-fleuve, Peter Pettigrew pretends that Sirius Black has killed him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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