Belles Lettres

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Belles Lettres

in a broad sense, artistic literature in general; in a narrower and more widely used sense, artistic prose as distinguished from poetry and drama.

Sometimes, literature that is incomplete artistically and in ideas is included in belles lettres. The concept of belletriza-tion is widely used to designate the attempt by many authors of scholarly and scholarly artistic books to combine documentary material with elements of artistic narrative in the interests of entertainment.

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