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Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu Japanese writer and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu was the author of the Genji monogatari (c. 1010; The Tale of Genji), which is thought to be the world's oldest full novel.

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novel, an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Within its broad framework, the genre of the novel has encompassed an extensive range of types and styles: picaresque, epistolary, Gothic, romantic, realist, historical—to name only some of the more important ones. The novel is a genre of fiction, and fiction...

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