Martin Rivas is an 1862 novel by Alberto Blest Gana (18301920) and is widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel. The novel is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict it is an indispensable source for understanding politics and society in nineteenth-century Chile. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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