novel, n.Definitions

A Novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

The Novel is a machine for generating interpretations.

A Novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

The Novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

The Novel is a machine for generating interpretations. If the narrator is supplying the interpretations, then it is not a novel.

The Novel is a genre that has not always existed in the past and need not exist in the future. Benjamin argues that we need to decide where our literary emphasis will be placed... in rhetoric' In journalism'.

The Novel is a fiction and therefore it tells lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The Novel is a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.