Fables, Contes Et Novelles

[DarkAngelBGE]

(all in French)

Anyone know any good sites that provide you with help to:

* describe characters in French

* understand the plot in French

* summarize the plot in French

* interpret the plot

?

[akya]

not yet...but I will search

Pas encore, mais je vais chercher

en passant...c Nouvelles et pas Novelles

in english...Novel...in french Nouvelle...seems weird...like news but it's like that

[Yiuel]

Nouvelles (Novels) and Nouvelles (News) have related meanings in French. In English, the Novel concept extends to the French concept of "Roman". But in French, Nouvelle kept the narrow meaning it used to have, in litterature : "a small account of something that occured".

In one way, it became the litterature "Nouvelle", which was to artistically and shortly describ any event, while in the other way, it described a small account of a real story, leading to the News.

In English, they didn't translate Novel, because they probably only took the concept. But for News, they probably went one with the same Idea as in French : "what is new". Relate to the French expression : "Tu as des nouvelles de..." (What's new about...)

[akya]

thanks for the long explanation Yiuel

but well now that they know...the title of this thread should be edited

[Curufinwe]

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Well, usually "Nouvelle" as a literary work is "short story" in English.

"Novel" and "Nouvelle" are quite mistaking.

"Novel" is "Roman" ...