My troubles with the translations seems neverending

Here:

http://www.japan-activator.com/en/lesso ... icle/id/87

This example

この小説は何という小説でしょうか。

"This Novel" ha " what is called "Novel" I guess...

The second 小説 have no sense to me

It might seem weird to you but it does have a sense.
Nan to iu + noun + desu ka (or deshou ka) means "What is it called", "What is it named"or "What kind of + noun".
The first 小説 could have even been replaced by これは or dropped.

Just to be sure about this

The first 小説 is the subjet of the sentence, and the combination of 何という小説でしょうか, including the second 小説 can be translate as "what is called"

And, as you point, the first 小説 can be replaced by "this thing" o dropped because we know that
talking about

¿Is the construction works in this way here?

Thanks