| 释义 |
‖ novella|nəʊˈvɛlə|
[It.]
A short narrative (as the stories of Boccaccio's Decameron), = novel n. 3; a short novel or long short-story.
1902W. D. Howells Literature & Life 116 Few modern fictions of the novel's dimensions..have the beauty of form many a novella embodies. 1911Encycl. Brit. XIX. 834/2 After Bandello the decline of the Italian novella is evident. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Dec. 868/1 A brilliant novella of life in a remote Welsh valley. 1957Ibid. 30 Aug. 517/3 Why is any story of more than fifty pages now called ‘a short novel’ or ‘novella’—have publishers invented a new literary category? 1958Ibid. 15 Aug. 458/2 The novella is a simpler medieval form brought to perfection in the Decameron. Essentially the novella is an anecdote about people you know, or know of. 1959John o' London's 17 Dec. 350/1 H. E. Bates has made the novella, which is more generally referred to as the ‘long-short story’ a form of fiction which is very much his own. 1974Times 23 May 10/8 There are two novellas here, both written entirely in dialogue. |
