It is the first major work of literature written in Catalan, and perhaps the first European novel.

By a literary vocation, Čelebić is a novelist, channeling the traditional European philosophical novel.

This, of course, is one of the drawbacks to traveling around in these long, profound European novels - time behaves very differently.

Despite its dependence on the European novel, "A Suitable Boy" is something of a patriotic statement.

Naturalism in the European novel: new critical perspectives (1992)

From the 19th century, the increasing influence of the European novel, and particularly that of the French novel, began to be felt.

It is, as has been said of Barnes's work before, a European novel that happens to be in English.

"Sitting in the lounge here is like entering the world of a central European novel," said Belinda, the mother.

London and Paris 'rule the entire continent for over a century', he concluded, publishing half or more of all European novels.

The other is the European novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, viewed as a source of insight into our experience and self-understanding.