Definition of "novelistic" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of novels. (adjective)

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• "Yet, in my eyes, what I say about Nietzsche's eternal return has nothing to do with a philosophic discourse; it is a continuity of paradoxes that are no less novelistic that is to say, they answer no less to the essence of what the novel is than a description of the action or a dialogue."
• "Using what Fenk thinks of as "novelistic" devices not make the book a novel."
• "J.D Salinger wrote in a letter that his novel is explicity "novelistic" and should only be read, not adapted for the screen."