saga novel

基本解释

Saga novel is one of the most important mature genres in the contemporary literature.
长篇小说创作是中国当代文坛最重要、更是发育得较为充分的文体之一。
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Moment in Peking , though associated with several stories, is never loosen-structured but quite to the reverse, a huge saga novel.
京华烟云》是一部好几篇小说联成的长篇小说，但不因此而成一部分散漫无结构的故事，而反为大规模的长篇。
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Friends composing novels say when composing saga novel, you feel excited before you start, but painful at the beginning, enjoy most at the middle and absent of enthusiasm in the end.
写小说的朋友说，写长篇小说，最兴奋是还没下笔之前，最痛苦是开头，最享受是写到中场的时候，最意兴阑珊是差不多写到结局的时候。
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Don DeLillo memorably fictionalized the ball's ownership saga in his novel Underworld.
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