concept
Sui generis
sui generis
Latin: 'of its own kind'; the narrator's closing verdict on Kamyshev's manuscript, allowing it originality even while cataloguing its faults.
Reading notes
- A Drama at the Hunt §160 sui generis
Latin: 'of its own kind' -- the editor-narrator's judgment that Kamyshev's manuscript, whatever its faults, is at least an original, not a copy of the fashionable detective fiction of the day.