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> the oldest extant novel The Tale of Genji is now generally considered to hold that title. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji http://en.wikipedia
by derleth 14y ago
> the oldest extant novel
The Tale of Genji is now generally considered to hold that title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji
http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11480.aspx http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/11480.aspx
- winestock 14y agoI hope that this thread doesn't get derailed into nit-picking. The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century. The Golden Ass is a prose work which Apuleius wrote in the second century. Different authorities will have different definitions of the word "novel," so let's just agree to disagree.