mystery (story)

novela de aprendizaje — Bildungsroman, novel concerned with a person's formative years

novela iniciática — Bildungsroman, novel concerned with a person's formative years

novela policíaca — detective story, whodunit *

Ex: One part of a novel or long text may be read in order to whet the listeners' appetites for reading the book themselves.

déjate de misterios! — stop being so mysterious! (colloq)

déjate de misterios! — stop being so mysterious! (colloq)

Ex: In some cases the real question that needs to be answered may indeed turn out to be, as Winston Churchill once said of Russia, 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'.

Ex: Mystery plays are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

Ex: In all, the specialist world of romantic fiction is by no means homogeneous and there is even specialism in contemporary romance, historical romance, hospital romance and mystery romance.

• le he escrito para aclarar las cosas — I've written to him to make things clear

• aclarar que — to make it clear that

cuando nos levantamos estaba aclarando — dawn o day was breaking when we got up

a ver si nos aclaramos — let's see if we can sort things out o get things straight

cuando nos levantamos estaba aclarando — dawn o day was breaking when we got up

a ver si nos aclaramos — let's see if we can sort things out o get things straight

Ex: The examples above should serve also to clarify the relationship between the authority entry and the reference entry.

Ex: Its popularity is attested to by its enormous sales which clearly indicate that for many women a new romantic novel is worth the outlay of a certain sum of money.

una niebla espesa envolvía el castillo — the castle was surrounded o shrouded in thick fog

un velo de misterio envuelve el caso — the case is cloaked o shrouded in mystery

un velo de misterio envuelve el caso — the case is cloaked o shrouded in mystery

Ex: In some cases the real question that needs to be answered may indeed turn out to be, as Winston Churchill once said of Russia, 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'.

Ex: Librarians may group novels of a certain type together, eg all the love stories, all the westerns, all the detective stories, all the historical novels, and so on.

Ex: If no such standards can be observed then, it would seem, romantic fiction along with westerns and detective stories must be regarded as some sort of cul-de-sac and rather stagnant backwater quite separate from the main stream of 'literature'.

Ex: Cataloging has been an art, a rather well-defined art and probably close to its zenith in its present form.

Ex: It is often better therefore to begin by reading a story until the ingredients are familiar -- the plot, the characters, the place, motive, atmosphere, theme, moments of climax and suspense -- and then to tell the story on future occasions in one's own words.

Ex: Authors may be persons or corporate bodies, and the term author is normally extended to include writers, illustrator, performers, producers, translators, and others with some intellectual or artistic responsibility for a work.