Resumen de Novela larga y novela breve: Algunos contrastes
This article analyzes the most essential elements that characterize short novels —nouvelles, novelle—, and long ones —romans, romanzi—, and ancient Greek novels as well. Short novels aim at amusing the readers through a surprising and curious intrigue, while the long ones want to move them and demand their attention and a certain emotional immersion in the plot. The ancient Greek novels offer a sentimental lesson and an example of loving fidelity through the adventures of two lovers, who meet, live some vicissitudes separately, and happily reunite with each other again. The explanation of the emergence of the long stories as a development of a short story or of the combination of previous literary genres is rejected, because in the creation of the novel there is a conscious intention of the novelist.
