Finally, in Canada, a writer was allegedly stabbed, apparently because of a novel that had been considered blasphemous.

The decision must be influenced by a number of circumstances, such as the nature and tenor of the novel and the place of the passage within it.

The mere fact that an insulting remark is made by a character in a novel does not exclude the possibility that the author can be deemed responsible for the utterance.

But as they say, a play or a novel that keeps up the suspense until the last minute is probably the best you can find on the market.

A competition will be held on the theme "Memory, contributions to diversity", including biographies, testimonies, essays, stories, novels, poetry and theatre.

3. "Foreign Novel" - a magazine for youth and adults, which publishes the world's best classical and contemporary fiction (circulation - 6 000);

The workers, peasants, youth and students contribute to the festivals or performances novels, poems, drama scripts, music, dances or fine art of their own creation.

The language and style used are those of photo novels published in magazines for young people. The photo novel was distributed to the tune of 200,000 copies as a supplement to the October issue of Maks !, an educational review distributed young people aged 14 to 18 in schools in Flanders.

At issue was a passage in a novel he had written in which one of the characters says, "But then what can you expect with a Jew in charge?" The Supreme Court rejected the appeal in cassation by the Public Prosecution Service, although it also distanced itself from the argument advanced by the court of appeal.

The subsidies cover almost all literary genres (poetry, novels, short stories, essays, drama, biography), and their amount, which is in some cases considerable, in some way reflects the elevated status accorded by Portuguese society to literature and those who devote themselves to it.

Novels are complicated.

Your novels are very popular here.

Yes, but Bishop's novels are superb.

What novel are you calling bad?

Novels are meant to be read by yourself.

All novels are always a bit autobiographical.

It's a novel but it's not written like true novels are:

After all, novels are nothing but lies.

It's rather unusual. First novels are generally formed on experience.

"My first two novels are being released. "They're about me

I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterwards for hours to my girlfriend!” “And I write novels!”

To fill a novel with typical characters only, or with merely strange and uncommon people, would render the book unreal and improbable, and would very likely destroy the interest.

At that time Dumas-fils' beautiful work, La Dame aux Camelias--a novel which I consider imperishable--had just come into fashion.

I informed them that they little knew me-- I was not a small child--I understood every word in the language-- that I had read a couple of Paul de Kok's novels two years since on purpose, so as to know all about everything.

At the same moment, Amalia Ivanovna, now utterly offended because she had not taken the least part in the entire conversation and no one would even listen to her, suddenly risked a last attempt and, with concealed anguish, ventured to offer Katerina Ivanovna an extremely sensible and profound observation about the necessity, in the future institute, of paying special attention to the girls' clean linen (die Wàsche) and “of making sure dere iss vun such good lady” (die Dame) “who should look vell after the linen,” and second, “that all the young girls mussn't sneak any novel by night to read.” Katerina Ivanovna, who was really upset and very tired, and was already thoroughly sick of the memorial meal, immediately “snapped” at Amalia Ivanovna that she was “pouring out drivel”