The book as a whole feels off balance: overwritten in detail, underwritten in its larger novelistic structure.

Reviewers have commented that the show's novelistic structure and non-cliffhanger conclusion of the storyline would make it difficult for a second season to satisfy the audience.

The book features eight short stories and one novella that are thematically linked in such a way that the book has a novelistic structure.

Simon discusses the season's novelistic structure and the theme of the corrupting influence of the institutions that the characters have committed to.

The Guardian Unlimited review noted the pilot episode established the series' themes of institutional dysfunction, the ineffectiveness of the War on Drugs and novelistic structure.

He also noted the series themes of institutional dysfunction, the ineffectiveness of the War on Drugs and novelistic structure.

Mr. Imamura is a narrative filmmaker who favors leisurely, novelistic structures ("The Eel," 1997, and "Why Not?

The series was about memory itself, and its looping novelistic structure carried viewers along with Marlow on a journey into his past.

Although Mr. Boulez has expressed admiration for the "novelistic" structure of Mahler's works.

"To say I have to follow a traditional novelistic structure is like saying I have to straighten my hair."