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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 multitude of perspectives.
The word saga comes from Old Norse , where it meant "what is said, utterance, oral account, notification" and "(structured) narrative, story (about somebody)",[1] and was originally borrowed into English from Old Norse by scholars in the eighteenth century to refer to the Old Norse prose narratives known as sagas .[2] [3]
The typical family saga follows generations of a family through a period of history in a series of novels. A number of subgenres of the form exist such as the AGA saga .
Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch , R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr .
Literature [ edit ]
The sagas of Icelanders – the medieval Icelandic family sagas in which the word "saga " is derived
Mahabharata , by Valmiki – the chronicle of the Chandravanshi Rajput clan founded by Puru , also considered the longest poem in human history
Dream of the Red Chamber – one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature , it chronicles the rise and decline of the Jia family
A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight , by Henry Williamson
Ada or Ardor , by Vladimir Nabokov
Absalom, Absalom! , by William Faulkner
The Artamonov Business , by Maxim Gorky
Brideshead Revisited , by Evelyn Waugh
Beauty Is a Wound , by Eka Kurniawan
Buddenbrooks , by Thomas Mann
Captains and the Kings , by Taylor Caldwell
Harmonia Caelestis, a historicist piece by Péter Esterházy
The Cairo Trilogy , by Naguib Mahfouz
The Cazalet Chronicles , by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Covenant , by James A. Michener
The Crowthers of Bankdam , by Thomas Armstrong
Dune , by Frank Herbert
East of Eden , by John Steinbeck
The Emberverse series, by S. M. Stirling
Evergreen , by Belva Plain
Fall on Your Knees , by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Family Tree tetralogy, by Ann M. Martin
Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
The Forsyte Saga , by John Galsworthy
The Golovlyov Family , by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
The Good Earth and its sequels, by Pearl S. Buck
Holes , by Louis Sachar
Homegoing , by Yaa Gyasi
Homestuck , by Andrew Hussie
The House of the Spirits , by Isabel Allende
The Immigrants , by Howard Fast
The Jalna books, by Mazo de la Roche
The Kent Family Chronicles and The Crown Family Saga , by John Jakes
Kristin Lavransdatter , by Sigrid Undset
Os Maias , by Eça de Queiroz
Old-fashioned Story by Magda Szabó
I Malavoglia , by Giovanni Verga
The Mallens , by Catherine Cookson
Middlesex , by Jeffrey Eugenides
One Hundred Years of Solitude , by Gabriel García Márquez
The Oppermanns , by Lion Feuchtwanger
The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium , by George Leonardos
The Promise , by Damon Galgut
Radetzkymarsch (Radetzky March ), by Joseph Roth
Roma , by Steven Saylor
Roots , by Alex Haley
The Silmarillion , by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sometimes A Great Notion , by Ken Kesey
Strangers and Brothers , by C. P. Snow
The Thibaults , by Roger Martin du Gard
Time and the Wind , by Erico Verissimo
The Thorn Birds , by Colleen McCullough
The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò , Renaissance-set novel series by Dorothy Dunnett
Under the North Star , by Väinö Linna
The Vorkosigan Saga , by Lois McMaster Bujold
White Teeth , by Zadie Smith
The Witcher , by Andrzej Sapkowski
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References [ edit ]
^ Dictionary of Old Norse Prose/Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog (Copenhagen: [Arnamagnæan Commission/Arnamagnæanske kommission], 1983–), s.v. '1 saga sb. f.' .
^ "saw, n.2. ", OED Online , 1st edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2019).
^ "saga, n.1. ", OED Online , 1st edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2019).
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Family_saga&oldid=1232631864 "
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