roman-fleuve
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I’ve a sneaking suspicion that Lee Child’s Reacher novels, with their affectless prose and numbed heroics, may end up being understood as a great, experimental roman-fleuve of our time.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
One of the pleasures of any roman-fleuve lies in keeping track of the pasts and permutations of vast numbers of characters.
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It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas.
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