The biggest novel in the literature. The longest works in the history of literature

The mention of the novel of the L. Tolstoy "War and the World" somehow came across the memories of his reading in school years. Few settled this ambitious work in its volume and plan. It seemed to many that four volumes were simply unbearable. Naturally, I wanted to look for whether the works are listed, so to speak. And, of course, those were found.

The novel of the Japanese chronicler of Sakhachi Yamaoka "Tokugava Iseasu", since 1951, published in parts in Japanese daily newspapers. Today, the novel "Tokugava Iseasu" is completed, and if it is completely re-epit, then the 40-volume edition will be. It is not known whether it will ever happen, but the fact remains a fact! Roman tells about the adventures of the first segun of the Tokugawa clan, which united Japan and for the long years of the world in the country.

The longest work in the history of literature is considered the novel "People of Good Will" of the French writer, poet and playwright, a member of the French Academy of Roman Jules (the real name - Louis Henri Jean Farigul). "People of Good Will" is a full-fledged edition that can be purchased and read sequentially. It was published in twenty seven volumes from 1932 to 1946. It is estimated that the volume of the novel amounted to 4959 pages, and words in it approximately 2,070,000 (not counting the 100-page indicator and 50-page contents). For comparison, in the Bible, the number of words about 773 700.

In the novel, "People of Good Will", Jules tried to realize and explain the historical processes that took place in the thirties in France in the point of view of his right-wing views. The essay in prose should have expressed in all variety and the smallest details of the modern author of the world.

There is no clear plot in the book, and the number of heroes exceeds four hundred. "Goodwill people! Under the sign of an ancient blessing, we will look for them in the crowd and gain. ... Let them find any faithful tool to learn each other in a crowd so that this world does not die, the honor and salt of which they are. "

In the preface of its prolonged creative marathon, the author questioned the structure of writing Balzak masterpieces, such as Proust and Roland. Because he considered the unacceptable "mechanistic" idea of \u200b\u200bwriting multi-volume novels, where the whole is revealed through a separate person. That is, Zhul Romen himself, publishing his first volume back in 1932, was confident in the idea of \u200b\u200bthe scenes and rawness of the plot and the life of all his heroes (and as already mentioned, there were about 400 in "people of goodwill").

In the longest book, there really is all: criminality and spirituality, wealth and poverty, politics and culture. Moreover, of course, all events are supported by the ideas of the history of that time. In general, Roman told about the events of 1908-1933. The author was more likely to help to understand all the crisis time the crisis time, with whom the French people faced. However, Zhul Romain did not hurt to write articles and essays on various scientific, political and literary topics - he was heard by an erudite man.

Nevertheless, the novel himself was subsequently subjected to tough criticism. The literary world did not take a work as the creator wanted. The accusation side prescribed this work a distorted statement of facts. Jul Romain criticized for the wrong understanding of history. Therefore, if you are ready to justify the writer, even if in the XXI century, then start reading the longest book in the world.

Not all writers agree with the statement of "brevity - sister of talent". In addition, many of us prefer a favorite book or story to never end. Below is a list of ten longest novels in the world, based on the estimated number of words.

Sronia, Texas (Sironia, Texas) - the novel of the American author Madison Cooper, who describes life in the fictional city of Sironia, Texas, at the beginning of the 20th century. The book contains near 840,000 words and more than 1,700 pages, which makes it one of the longest novels in English. It was written for 11 years and published in 1952. Has awarded the literary award of Houton Miffline.

"Women and Men" (Women and Men) - Roman Joseph McElloma published in 1987. Holds 1 192 pages and 850,000 words. It is considered the most difficult-drawn novel in the world.

"Poor Felow My Country" - the Roman of the Australian writer Xavier Herberta who received the Micress Franklin premium for him. Was published in 1975. Consists of 1,463 pages and 852,000 words. It is the longest Australian fiction ever written. The topic of the novel includes questions about the rights of Aborigines, and also describes the lives and problems of North Australia.

"Son of Ponniyin Selvan) - Tamil historic novel, written by Krishnamurti. It is one of the greatest works of Tamil literature. He tells the story of the prince of Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Rajaraja Cola I), one of the outstanding kings of the Chola dynasty of the rule in the X-XI centuries. The novel was published in the 1950s. There are 2,400 pages and 900,000 words.

Kelidar - Monumental Roman Mahmoud Dawulabadi. One of the most famous Persian novels and, of course, one of the best. There are 2,836 pages in five volumes, consists of ten books and 950,000 words. It tells about the life of the Kurdish family from the Iranian village in the province of Horacean between 1946-1949, which faces the hostility of neighbors, despite the similarities of their cultures.

"Clarissa, or the story of the Young Lady" (Clarissa, Or, The History of A Young Lady) - Epistolar Roman of the English writer Samuel Richardson, written in 1748. Consists of 1,534 pages and 984 870 words. It is in the list of the top 100 novels of all time. The tragic character of the heroine is told in it, whose desire for virtue is constantly breaking her family.

"Zettels Traum) is the work of the West German writer Arno Schmidt, published in 1970. Specifies 1,536 pages and 1 100,000 words. The story here is told in the form of notes, collages and typewritten pages.

Venmurasu is the Tamil novel of the writer Jiamokhan. This is the most ambitious work of the author, which he began in January 2014, and later announced that it would write it every day for ten years. It is expected that the total volume of the novel will be 25,000 pages. As of December 2017, 15 books were published on the Internet and printed. While they have 11,159 pages and 1 556 028 words.

"In search of lost time" (à la recherche du temps perdu) - French Roman-epic, the main work of the writer Marseille Proust, created by him during the 1908 / 1909-1922 and published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927. It tells about the memoirs of childhood and adolescent experiences of the author in the aristocratic France of the late XIX - the beginning of the 20th century, considers empty spending time and the lack of meaning in the world. The novel consists of 3,031 pages and 1 267 069 words.

"Artamène Ou Le Grand Cyrus) is a French roman-river, originally published in Ten Volumes in the 18th century Madelene de Skudiri and her brother George de Skudari. In total, in the original edition, there are 13,095 pages and 1 954 300 words. It is considered the longest novel in the history of world literature. The type refers to the secular novels (with the key), where modern people and events are subtly disguised as classical characters from Roman, Greek or Persian mythology.

Not all writers agree with the statement of "brevity - sister of talent". In today's selection we offer the longest novels in the history of literature. The authors spent on their creation. But even on their reading will need a lot of time.

By the way, the novel "War and the World" of Leo Tolstoy fell into the top ten, so each Russian schoolboy can proudly declare that he is familiar with one of the longest books is not at all.

10. Tokugava Iseasu, S. Yamaoka

This novel was published in parts in Japanese newspapers. If you collect all parts into a single work, then at least 40 volumes will be. The plot of the novel is dedicated to the first segun of Clan Tokugava, who united the country and established the world in it.

9. "Silent Don", M. Sholokhov

All four books that make up the novel occupy about 1,500 pages. In the novel 982 hero, of which 363 are real historical characters. For the "quiet Don" Sholokhov was with the consent of Stalin awarded the Nobel Prize.

8. "Rejected", V. Hugo

One of the main works of Hugo created for eighteen years old - from 1834 to 1852. The author then processed the text several times, adding and removing various fragments.

7. "In Search of Lost Time", M. Prost

This is a whole cycle of 7 novels, in which there are more than two thousand characters. Books are replete with emotional splashes, fancy tons of narration. In total, "in search of lost time" has more than one and a half million words that occupy about 3,200 pages.

6. "Saga about Forsyites", D. Golzóworsi

The novel of the Nobel laureate amazes clearly prescribed by the images of heroes. The work covers the family history of 1680 to the 1930s. Saga was based on 6 shields, the latter of which has a duration of 11.5 hours.

5. "War and World", L. Tolstoy

All who have read "War and Peace" can be divided into two categories. Some of the novel in full delight, others - can not stand it. But no one epoching work in three volumes leaves indifferent.

4. "Quekinkax", Ch. Paliser

This work is a modern stylization under the Victorian Roman. Each of the two volumes has a volume of 800 pages depending on the publication. The plot is full of mysteries, symbolism and unexpected turns.

3. "Ulysses", J. Joy

Roman is considered one of the best works of English-speaking prose. "Ulysses" was written for seven many years, while telling about one day of Dublin Jew Leopold Bloom. For the first time, the novel was published by parts from 1918 to 1920.

2. "Astrey", O. D'Iurf

Roman was written in 21 years of hard work. The work in the first edition was fitted with 5,399 pages. Published in 1607, the novel tells about the love of the shepherds of Astrei and the shepherd of Seladon. In the book, the mass of plug-in novels and poetic inclusions.

1. "Good Will People", R. Jules

The novel of French playwright, writer and poet published in 27 volumes. The work has more than two million words on 4,959 pages. The table of contents of the world's longest novel has about 50 pages. It is noteworthy that there is no single and clear storyline in the book, and the number of characters exceeds four hundred.

Tokugava Iehasu Japanese writer Sokhai Yamaoka is about 40 volumes in the book version. Yes, I decided not to make secrets to which the reader would make their way through the debris of various information and comments, and immediately called the winner. Those who are interested in nuances and terminological subtleties - welcome to the following study.

Speaking of the longest novel, we, of course, first of all we think about the volume. And the question of how to calculate the length of the work seems to be naive at first glance. We can copy the text of the work in electronic form and see how many words or symbols are found in it. But one already mentioning the Japanese author brings to common observation, that in languages \u200b\u200bwith hieroglyphic graphics one character is one word. So, the text on Japanese will contain fewer characters than its translation, for example, into Russian. But in the paper variant both options can be approximately the same due to the size of the hieroglyphs, which are usually printed larger than letters.

Book option is a separate question. Some editions fit "war and peace" in one book, and other in two. The number of pages may also differ due to different fonts and size of sheets. But already twice mentioned Sohachi Jamaoka hints that truly long novels are calculated in dozens of volumes.

Question 2. What is a novel?

Also, it would seem that a ridiculous question. We all intuitively understand that "Crime and Punishment" and "Master and Margarita" - novels. And that Evgeny Onegin is also a novel, in verse. But the "horsepower" is a story. And the point here is not only in the amount, but also in the essential features of the novel, which distinguishes it from other prosaic forms: the presence of several storylines, a certain number of main and secondary characters, etc.

By the way, with regard to the volume, in the history of literature there is an example of a very long work, which is technically the story. Ulysses of the Irish writer James Joyce stretched almost a thousand pages, but in it one storyline and one protagonist is Leopold Bloom, so it's still a story.

But for us more important than another nuance. Can we consider a novel an essay in which new adventures occur in each chapter? The film "Idiot" in ten episodes is a multi-sized film. And "Secrets of the investigation" - the series. I think the cinematic analogy is clear. Can we stories of Don Quixote and Sancho Pancoua consider romance or is it a collection of stories switched into one book? I hope now it will be more clear that the terminologically surveys are not just like that.

Tokugava Iehasu

Let's finally deal with our winner, especially since it is just from the category of endless stories collected together. Roman Japanese writer Sakhachi Yamaoka "Tokugava Iseas" you are unlikely to meet in a bookstore. The thing is that this work can only be called a novel. Yamaoka printed the head of his essay in the daily newspaper, since 1951. Nobody exercised special edition. However, it is clear: whether the joke is if all parts of the work joined together, it will turn out to be a huge 40-volume edition.

It is unlikely that there are at least a dozen of people in the world who read the novel from the beginning to the end. But we know the name of the main character - this is the first sogun from Clan Tokugawa, who united the country of the rising sun and installed the world in it.

Yamaoka's novel was published by a separate publication, and before that, it was distributed in a variety of releases of Japanese newspapers, why it can be deservedly called published twice. The novel of the American writer Henry Darger "History Vivian Jirles" was not only never published - he was found already after the death of the author. In the novel, the Earth is only a companion of another, the greater planet, and the plot describes the military resistance of children-slaves with brutal enslavers. Of course, you are intrigued and want to know the volume of work. I answer: 10 of the passionist volumes, which are a total of more than 15 thousand pages! The number of words so far no one has calculated, but scientists suggest that they are about 10 million.

"People of Good Will"

Let us turn to the published novels that can be reached, open and read. Let and not in Russian. The record holder here is the French writer Romen Jules (real name - Louis Henri Jean Farigul). He set the task in detail to deal with the reasons for the troubles of the inhabitants of France for a quarter of a century, from 1908 to 1933. The result was large-scale - 27 volumes that occupied 5 thousand pages. Only the table of contents is located 50 pages!

Interestingly, "goodwill people" were transferred to English. Publisher "Peter Davis" published a novel in 14, even more sweaty, volumes. The number of words in both cases exceeds 2 million.

"Astrey"

The novel of another French writer created during 21 years, Onor D'Iurf was also published. In addition, its volume is even more: in the history of the love of the Shepherds of Astrei and the shepherd of the village of 5400 pages. However, we mention the "astray" after Romene Jules because the publication refers to 1607 and today this novel is unlikely to get it. But you can read the thesis of the candidate of philological sciences Tatyana Kozhanovoy "The problem of comic in the novel of the onor d'uryf" Astreya "" (Moscow, 2005).

"In search of lost time"

Not a novel, but a whole cycle of 7 novels - "In search of a lost time", another Frenchman, sophisticated Marseille Pruts, is inferior to "people of goodwill" slightly: 3200 pages and 1.5 million words. If you are instead of working to read 8 hours a day at speed, say, 40 pages per hour (i.e. 320 pages daily), then reading the prostsky cycle will take you 10 working days, or 2 calendar weeks. If you read 40 pages per day on weekends on Saturday and Sunday, "in search of lost time" "takes" you for 4 months.

Estimation-outsiders

Yes, they forgive me the titans of literature Sports term, but writers, whom we considered incredible graphomans, are provided if not at the bottom, then somewhere in the middle of the improvised table of the longest novels. If we talk about Russian writers, it turns out that the first coming to mind "War and Peace" is not the leader of the list. Creation of Tolstoy Count has about 1,400 pages of modern edition. While the "Quiet Don" Mikhail Sholokhova takes 1,500 pages. The researchers also calculated that in the novel of the Nobel laureate of the 982 hero, of which 363 are real historical personalities.

But we had authors who were solved on multi-volume epic descriptions. Most of them are unlikely to hear a modern reader. So, for example, the writer George Grebenshchikov will be a sign of his last name. Being under the significant influence of Roerich, who managed to write 7 thousand cavities for life, the musician named-epicer wrote Roman-epic in 12 parts of Churaev, published in Paris and New York in 1937.

Morality

On the Internet, the services recently appeared, in which you can throw a literary challenge to yourself: I will read so many books this year. And the digit must be specified on your own. To check in a year, whether you coped with your word.

Finding out the longest novel is, of course, it is good, interesting and interesting. But do not forget that in life the quality may be more important than size. For example, my parents came across the 12-Tomna Collection of Works F. M. Dostoevsky, who bought another student, as it turned out on the preserved check - July 3, 2004. The meeting includes all the works of Fedor Mikhailovich large and medium shape. By absorbing the first Tom, I thought that it would be nice to fulfill the student dream finally - read all Dostoevsky. I do not undertake any obligations, because you should not give words if you can not hold it down. But, will give God, I myself will read much more for myself than the longest novel - the great writer embodied in his novels!

In conclusion, I urge you to devote the book at least 20 minutes a day, and you remember what kind of indescribable pleasure is reading.

Records set by books, quite a few. It is known about the thick and most long books, about books with record-great circulation and the biggest books in the world. Some of them are initially published in order to become the most.

The longest books

Speaking of the longest books, you can mean the length of the book on the duration, and it can be due to the actual (physical) length.

It should be noted that it is difficult to imagine a person who dedicated the years of his life to creating a virtually long book. Usually, the writers seek the depth of the word and the thought of conveying the meaning of their work, even the longest of all.

"People of Good Will"

For the past fourteen years since 1932, Jules Romen wrote the novel, called "Good Will People". In it at least two million words. The novel was published in twenty seven volumes. He is recognized as the longest in the world. A very ambiguous reaction is a table of contents that occupy the whole fifty pages.

In the novel, you can find spirituality, criminal, poverty, wealth, culture and politics. In twenty seven volumes, the author described the life of the four hundred of heroes, affecting the events from 1908 to 1933-th year. Unfortunately, the literary world accepted this work not entirely as the author wanted. After the publication of the novel, he was brutal criticism. The idea was expressed that the author distorted the events of that time, incorrectly understanding the story.

"Fantastic"

Length of a book with the name "fantastic" - one kilometer eight hundred fifty six meters. This is the longest (physically) book in the world. She created four hundred people from the school castello. In this "experiment" also participated teachers of the center and even the families of all participants.

The book was made of papyrus and wound on the pole. The record registered one of the notaries of the city of Castello. She entered her eleven fairy tales, whose main thought is poverty and wealth.

Thickest books

There are several record-thick books. One of them is "Wikipedia", which is an articles from the Internet collected in one printed edition. There is an assumption that this collection of articles was published only so that the book with the volume of five thousand pages fell into the Guinness Book of Records. It is doubtful that such a thick book can be read - it is completely impractical to use it.

Another book-record holder is the thickest edition of Miss Marple, printed in the form of a complete essay assembly. The works of Agatha Christie, collected in one book, fit on four thousand thirty-two pages. The width of the root of this edition is three hundred twenty-two millimeters, and the weight is eight kilograms. Despite the fact that for reading such a giant book is most likely unsuitable, it was published in the number of five hundred copies.

Books with the biggest circulation

No wonder the Bible is called book books. She was reprinted many times in all countries of our planet. Its popularity not only does not fall, but continues to rise. To date, the number of these copies of this book is approximately six billion.

Another book, the circulation of which can be bolded to call one of the biggest, is the quotation of Mao Zedong. His circulation is a billion copies. Usually this book is published with a red cover, for which in the countries of the West, the quotes are often referred to as the "red book".

Significantly lags behind the size of the circulation in third place the book of John Tolkina, written in the genre of fantasy, "The Lord of the Rings". Her circulation is one hundred million copies. Approximately the same circulation of the book with the name "American Catalog of spelling" and at the Guinness Book of Records, which are on the fourth and fifth place of the book rating with the largest circulation.

The sixth place in the ranking is occupied by the World Yearbook with a circulation, equal to eighty millions of copies, and the seventh place - the "anthology of children's reading McGaffi". The circulation of this book is sixty million copies. A photograph of fifty million copies published the book "Basics of care for a child." "Da Vinci Code" took the ninth line of the rating with a circulation of forty three million, and on the tenth honorable place the work of Elbert Hubbard with a gravity of forty million. His name is "Message to Garcia".

The biggest book in the world

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world's largest printed book is the "Giant Visual Odyssey on the Kingdom of Bhutan". The size of its pages is one hundred fifty-two two hundred thirteen centimeters. The total weight of this book, consisting of a hundred twelve pages, is equal to low sixty kilograms. Today it is created only eleven of its instances.

To print one book, you need to spend the roll of paper, the length of which is comparable to the football field length. Technology Printing this book is invented and developed by Michael Hew, a researcher of the Massachusetts Institute. A book can order anyone who pays thirty thousand dollars.

It is known about the "super-book", which in 1976 was published in Denver. Its dimensions - three hundred seven for two hundred seventy-four centimeters with weight almost two hundred fifty three kilograms. In 2004, a new record was installed in Russia in Russia, namely, the book "The biggest book for kids" was published. Its dimensions are able to hit everyone - six three meters with a weight of four hundred ninety-two kilograms. It is difficult to imagine such a book, because the area of \u200b\u200beach page is equal to no less - eighteen square meters.

There are other amazing books. For example, the most expensive Tomik verse was the edition of the book of Edgar on Tamerlan and other poems. .
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