Novella

novella [no-vel-a], a fictional tale in prose, intermediate in length and
complexity between a *SHORT STORY and a *NOVEL, and usually
concentrating on a single event or chain of events, with a surprising
turning point. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902) is a fine example;
Henry James and D. H. Lawrence also favoured the novella form. The
term comes from the Italian word novella ('novelty'; plural novelle), which
was applied to the much shorter stories found in Boccaccio's Decameron
(1349-53), until it was borrowed at the end of the 18th century by Goethe
and other writers in Germany, where the novella (German, *NOVELLE) in
its modern sense became established as an important literary * GENRE. In
France it is known as the nouvelle. See also conte, novelette.
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