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roman-fleuve

[raw-mahn-flœv] / rɔ mɑ̃ˈflœv /
NOUN
roman a clef
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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas.

From Time Magazine Archive


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