A saga novel is a genre encompassing the wide scopes of stories and narratives such as religious saga, national saga,
family saga, human saga, etc.
History
Icelandic Tradition
The saga novel as a genre originates from the Icelandic history of family sagas
Examples
A major example of a saga novel in English literature is
George Eliot's ''
Middlemarch.'' In Russia,
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
's ''
War and Peace'' is a representative saga novel. In Korea, Kyunglee Park's ''Lands'' (''Tohgee'') is another example. In the United States,
Pearl S. Buck's ''
The Good Earth'' and
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel '' Gone with the Wind'', for which she wo ...
's ''
Gone with the Wind'' belong to the category of saga novels. In China, Lo Guanzhong (Lo Kuanchung)'s ''Sanguo zhi yanyi'' (''Sankuo chi yen-i''; ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'') is the most representative and well-known saga novel since the 14th century.
References
Novel forms
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