Roman à thèse

A Roman à thèse (French: 'thesis novel') is a novel which is didactic or which expounds a theory. Scholar Susan Suleiman talked about "authoritarian fiction"

List of romans à thèse

 * Candide by Voltaire
 * Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
 * Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 * The Plague by Albert Camus
 * The Stranger by Albert Camus
 * Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
 * Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima