The secrets of the novel

Abstract

All over the world, people like to read different kind of novels, but none of them knows WHAT the term Novel means. The question “What is the Novel?” is still an open problem in scientific world. Till nowadays researchers cannot solve it completely. The main questions is, – why? Probably because many literary terms and concepts do not have a single meaning and definition of the following term. These equivalents are ambiguous. In addition, they have changed from time to time and acquired new meanings. This testifies to the great variety and infinity of meanings of fiction. It is like a sea or an ocean that never stops and always surprises us with its unpredictable changes.