ENOUGH OF THIS MEME!!!!!

You didn't point out anything, you just made a baseless claim combined with a meme pic.

>douglas adams grade redditcore
This is precise and it baffles me seeing this piece of shit of a satire unironically recommended on /lit sometimes, shit like

>One fine spring morning he took it into his head to
take a walk, and he marched straight forward, conceiving it to be a
privilege of the human species, as well as of animals in general, to make
use of their legs how and when they pleased.

is beyond nauseating, the sheer fucking smugness of it.

>smugness
That's your buzzword, isn't it? You insecure prick.

>They're not rocks Marie, they're minerals

It is a lot easier when you distinguish prose from the novel. In that case, Genji is just a prose narrative while the first novels were written in the 17th or 18th centuries in Western Europe. Personally, I think books such as Don Quixote, Pilgrim's Progress, and Oronooko, are novel-like, but not as recognizable as those from the 18th century such as Pamela, Clarissa, Robinson Crusoe, etc.

The attribution to Don Quixote as the first novel is dubious because there are no other Spanish works from that period which we also recognize as modern novels. On the other hand, in 18th century England, you had Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Swift, etc. who are undeniably novelists.

There's also the whole debate over the difference between what constitutes a novel and a romance, which is something you learn about more in graduate school. In the 19th century, the term "romance" was still used to describe works by authors such as Hawthorne and Sir Walter Scott. The reason why I don't label Don Quixote as the first novel is because it was a satire of chivalric romances, which was a genre quite popular throughout Europe and were usually written as lengthy prose narratives (a satire is always grounded in the genre which it satirizes).
To this day, you see the word "romance" preserved in other European languages' names for "novel' e.g. roman in French and German, romanzo in Italian, etc. Spanish is one of the few languages that calls it novela as we do in English.

tl;dr you'll want to research the history of the word "novel" and see how it went from being used to describe a specific type of prose narrative and then came to be a broad term used to describe all prose narratives above a certain length.

oh wow I didn't know

guess i'm a #redpilledpede now

So the Bible is a novel?

Rabelais predates Cervantes and you can't argue that Rabelais wrote romances.

if millions have died in the name of religion and even modern science, what could an early caveman genius could have known and its version of history? something you cant possibly reveal today because it predates all 'civilization' thought of control. literacy is a bias of materialistic civilization.