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What about “La Peste”?
Isn’t the 1947 novel by Albert Camus a specific homage to Defoe, citing him and following his format of a dispassionate anonymous observer recounting how plague struck a specific city?
--Hors-la-loi 10:32, 13 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hors-la-loi (talk • contribs)
non-fiction novel?
Has any modern critic called it a non-fiction novel + To answer my own question, yes. For example, https://books.google.kz/books?id=NcwcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=defoe+%22non-fiction+novel%22&source=bl&ots=MNSldJn8Hl&sig=ACfU3U3aD6eq5i79iNwDBcL5bC2ZBAy4yg&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2lZmwzd_oAhVs-ioKHUrJDwgQ6AEwAnoECAsQKg#v=onepage&q=defoe%20%22non-fiction%20novel%22&f=false (An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel) and Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, p. 397. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure (p. 361) calls the book 'an antecedent of non-fiction novels." Kdammers (talk)