Logan's school days - what English roman-fleuve could possibly lack an account of them?

It is the first part of a projected two-part roman-fleuve.

This coined the term roman-fleuve (river-novel), which has since been applied to other novel sequences in the same style.

The tradition of the Balzac and Zola inspired roman-fleuve continued to exert a profound attraction, as in Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe (1906-1912).

Perhaps when my book is finished and gone from my hands, I may take steps to become somehow a character in that grand roman-fleuve begun by other vampires in San Francisco or New Orleans.

Manning's best known works, the six books comprising Fortunes of War, have been described as "the most underrated novels of the twentieth century" and the author as "among the greatest practitioners of 20th-century roman-fleuve".

The result is a "richly constructed and brilliantly ornamented" roman-fleuve whose "tinder-dry combustion of comic, indignant and elegiac suggests an Evelyn Waugh of the left," Richard Eder said in the Book Review last year.

Rolland's most famous novel is the 10-volume roman-fleuve Jean-Christophe (1903-1912), which brings "together his interests and ideals in the story of a German musical genius who makes France his second home and becomes a vehicle for Rolland's views on music, social matters and understanding between nations".