今天偶然看到family saga 这样的词,不是太清楚它的确切定义,是指家族传奇吗?Saga与romance,biography有什么区别呢? 是一个单独的genre还是一个sub-genre?
Saga这个词也比较特别,是从古挪威语来的。查了WIKI, 如下
Family saga
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For the Icelandic family sagas see Icelanders' sagas.
The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes sequences of novels) with a serious intent, this is often a thematic device used to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multiple of perspectives.
The typical family saga follows generations of a family through a period of history in a series of novels. A number of sub-genres of the form exist such as the AGA saga.
Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch, R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr.
Examples of family sagas of literary note include:
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
Jalna books of Mazo de la Roche
The Kent Family Chronicles and The Crown Family Saga - John Jakes
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Roots - Alex Haley
The Thorn Birds - Coleen McCullough
Holes, a novel by Louis Sachar
In cinema:
The Best of Youth, La Meglio gioventù
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