Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 6:02:46 GMT
There are stories that cannot be confined within pre-established genres, stories that perhaps form a genre in themselves or more simply are archived in a narrative genre only as an excuse for the author to talk about something else. The genre then becomes a pure setting, almost a decorative element, while the story focuses on a topic dear to the author. These 10 types of novels can be found in any literary genre. For many, some represent a genre, but by looking at some examples of novels we discover that in reality the literary genre they belong to is another. So what are these 10 types of novels? How to define them? Some are influenced by the main theme of the story (dramatic, investigative, social novel), others by its structure (epistolary novel), others by the type of edition (appendix novel), others by the nature and strength of the characters (novel biographical and autobiographical, educational and psychological), others finally by the character of the story (philosophical and humorous novel). Index Biographical and autobiographical novel.
Appendix novel Bildungsroman Investigative novel Dramatic novel Epistolary novel Philosophical novel Psychological novel Social novel Humorous novel 1 – Biographical and autobiographical novel Not to be confused with actual biographies and autobiographies. A biographical novel takes elements of the life of an existing or once-existed character to tell them through a story. Biographical novels appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at first Special Data without direct references to the characters involved. In the autobiographical novel the author can use the narrative technique called autofiction and tell himself in the third person, but the fact remains that in an autobiographical novel real elements of the person's life (the author's, therefore) and fictional elements are mixed, otherwise we talk about autobiographies and memoirs.
A novel that does not have the author as the main protagonist of the story and does not show the personal aspects of his life as a fundamental part of the plot is not considered autobiographical. Many novels, in fact, are classified only as semi-autobiographical and semi-biographical. Can we consider the biographical and autobiographical novel a genre in itself? Thinking about it, it comes naturally to me to associate it with the literary genre whose characteristics are predominant in the story. Biographical novels about Hitler or Julius Caesar, for example, are first and foremost historical novels. Lejeune's concept of "autobiographical pact". An autobiographical novel is not and should not be an autobiography, therefore in an autobiographical novel there must be no “autobiographical pact”, as Philippe Lejeune called it. Lejeune is a French essayist who proposed a definition for the autobiographical genre: “a prose story about one's existence written by a real person”. According to Lejeune, author, narrator and protagonist must coincide, therefore the author's real name must appear.
Appendix novel Bildungsroman Investigative novel Dramatic novel Epistolary novel Philosophical novel Psychological novel Social novel Humorous novel 1 – Biographical and autobiographical novel Not to be confused with actual biographies and autobiographies. A biographical novel takes elements of the life of an existing or once-existed character to tell them through a story. Biographical novels appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at first Special Data without direct references to the characters involved. In the autobiographical novel the author can use the narrative technique called autofiction and tell himself in the third person, but the fact remains that in an autobiographical novel real elements of the person's life (the author's, therefore) and fictional elements are mixed, otherwise we talk about autobiographies and memoirs.
A novel that does not have the author as the main protagonist of the story and does not show the personal aspects of his life as a fundamental part of the plot is not considered autobiographical. Many novels, in fact, are classified only as semi-autobiographical and semi-biographical. Can we consider the biographical and autobiographical novel a genre in itself? Thinking about it, it comes naturally to me to associate it with the literary genre whose characteristics are predominant in the story. Biographical novels about Hitler or Julius Caesar, for example, are first and foremost historical novels. Lejeune's concept of "autobiographical pact". An autobiographical novel is not and should not be an autobiography, therefore in an autobiographical novel there must be no “autobiographical pact”, as Philippe Lejeune called it. Lejeune is a French essayist who proposed a definition for the autobiographical genre: “a prose story about one's existence written by a real person”. According to Lejeune, author, narrator and protagonist must coincide, therefore the author's real name must appear.