Re: the De-Facto Canon
- From: goldfarb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Goldfarb)
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:31:43 +0000 (UTC)
In article <Xns9940874039FD2ddbddbnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:0pidnbu7J4EWSMHbnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:
_Tale of Genji_, 11th century
_Don Quixote_, 1604
I'm not going to touch on long poems, romances, and all that.
Wikipedia has an adequate list of names to start with.
"Novel" doesn't necessarily mean "long prose narrative", depending on
who you ask.
_Genji Monogatari_, to my mind, is clearly not a novel but a
collection of stories.
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