Novels, more than any other narrative artform, take you on a long journey—a transformative one that passes through extensive imaginary and lawless landscapes. They demand your commitment and compel you to bear it till the end, fluttering and oscillating according to its rhythm, making your emotions dance to its tunes. According to Milan Kundera, Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, written in the sixteenth century, started it all, followed by Cervantes with Don Quixot...