What is a literary novel? How to distinguish?

Classical literature in literary novels is divided into poems and essays, and prose is divided into rhymes and essays. Modern literature is generally divided into four literary genres: poetry, prose, novel and drama. Novel is a comprehensive literary form with virtual world as its content. Traditionally, prose is the mainstay. Zhuangzi: Decorating novels as a county magistrate. China's novels in the modern sense began with fables in pre-Qin prose, matured in the notes of the late Han Dynasty and the Six Dynasties, and then spread to novels represented by the four wonderful books and short stories represented by Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Western novels are called novels and prose epics. As a later literary form, novels are associated with myths and legends. Because of its huge capacity, it profoundly and comprehensively reflects the reality and people's thoughts, and has become one of the mainstream literary forms since modern times. In short, the novel is only a genre of literature, not all. The definition of literature in Ci Hai is: "Literature is a social ideology. In ancient times, all books and documents written in words were collectively called documents. Modernity refers to the art of shaping images with language to reflect social life and express the author's thoughts and feelings, so it is also called "language art". Modern times are usually divided into many genres such as poetry, prose, novel, drama, film and television literature, and each genre has a variety of styles. " This nature of literature determines that literature is not only "pure art", but also inevitably reflects the background of the times, social life and even the summary and judgment of history and the subjective desire for its development direction. For example, Anna Karenina, Resurrection, Red and Black, The Virgin, Human Comedy, Shakespeare's Plays, China's Book of Songs, Cao Cao's Poems, Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Even a Dream of Red Mansions, can we simply say that it is a love tragedy novel? Lu Xun said that if you look at the feudal history of China, you will see the word "cannibalism". Looking at A Dream of Red Mansions, we can feel that this society is strangling human nature, so it is inevitable that we will have the impulse to overthrow this society. In fact, A Dream of Red Mansions was labeled as immoral and "anti-book" as soon as it came out. It is not a "revolution" imposed on it by future generations. Literary novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete story plots and specific environmental descriptions. A novel has three elements: characters, plots and environment (natural environment and social environment). The main means by which novels reflect social life is to portray characters. The characters in the novel are called typical characters; This character was created by the author according to real life. He is different from the real person, "eclectic, integrated." It is more concentrated and representative to reflect life through such typical figures. The means of shaping characters in novels can be general introduction, specific description, description of characters' appearance and psychological activities. It can be either the action dialogue of the characters or the discussion of the author. You can use the pen from the front or from the side. The novel mainly shows the character and performance center through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated, complete and representative than the real things that happen in current life. The description of the environment and the characterization of the novel have an extremely important relationship with the central idea. In the description of environment, social environment is the key point, which reveals all kinds of complex social relations, such as identity, status, historical background of growth and so on. The natural environment includes place, time, season, climate, scenery and so on. The description of the natural environment plays a great role in expressing the emotions of characters and rendering the atmosphere. Simply put, the novel is centered on shaping characters, and reflects social life through the narrative of stories and the description of the environment. Literary novels are relative to popular novels, while romantic novels are a kind of popular novels, which are mainly stories, including martial arts, science fiction, magic, reasoning, romance and historical novels. Literary novels mainly refer to social novels, reflecting the characteristics of an era. For example, Don Quixote and three musketeers are both martial arts novels. Although the martial arts novels of Jin Yong and Gu Long are regarded as literary novels, they are essentially popular novels. Lu Xun's and Jia Pingwa's novels mainly reflect the current social situation, even with the nature of disclosure, belonging to literary novels!