Question

How novels came into tradition

Answer 1

The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years",with its origins in classical Greece and rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English and other European languages to describe a long short story or a short novel.)

Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji (1010) has been described as the world's first novel. Spread of printed books in China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Parallel European developments occurred after the invention of the printing press. Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote (the first part of which was published in 1605), is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era.[2] Ian Watt, in The Rise of the Novel (1957), suggested that the modern novel was born in the early 18th century.