Roman (literature)
The novel is a literary genre, characterized essentially by a more or less long fictional narrative. The important place made to the imagination appears in certain expressions like "It's the novel! "Or in certain meanings of the adjective" romantic "which refer to the extraordinary characters, situations or intrigue. The novel, first written in assonantic verse in the twelfth century before being prose at the beginning of the thirteenth century, is also defined by its destination for individual reading, unlike the story or epic that falls under the origin of oral transmission. The fundamental spring of the novel is then the curiosity of the reader for the characters and for the adventures, to which will later be added the interest for an art of painting. Over the last few centuries, the novel has become the dominant literary genre with a multiplicity of subgenres that underline its polymorphous character.