Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!columbia!topaz!MLY.G.SHADES@MIT-OZ From: MLY.G.SHADES@MIT-OZ Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #237 Message-ID: <2437@topaz.ARPA> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:39:45 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2437 Posted: Fri Jul 5 00:39:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:36:30 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 11 From: shadesi have been avoiding the this entire issue of tucker versus the rest of world however i do wish to make one small point. tom de bellis is correct in that the divine comedy is not a novel. it was and is an epic poem. the genesis of the 'modern novel' does stem from don quixote. it was the first *prose* fiction piece. if you read it in the original you will find where he lapses back to the traditional poetic format rather than having it as a straight prose piece. shades%mit-oz@mit-mc.arpa