小説(しょうせつ)

しょうせつ
noun
novel, fiction
artleisure
1. novel, fiction, story
A fictitious prose narrative of book length.
日本(にほん)の小説(しょうせつ)を読(よ)んでいる。
I'm reading a Japanese novel.
小説(しょうせつ)を書(か)くのが夢(ゆめ)だ。
My dream is to write a novel.
The novel my friend recommended was so interesting that I finished reading it in a single day.

小説(しょうせつ) covers prose fiction of any length, so it is wider than English "novel": a short story is a 短編(たんぺん)小説(しょうせつ). Non-fiction is not 小説(しょうせつ).

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