Talk:Historical fiction
Add topic- It had never occurred to me that to shift the scene of a novel to another age ... and to cast it in an English some degrees pleasanter than the current, put me in a disreputable genre. I met some very astonishing statements-such as that I was a writer of adventure stories.
- Patrick O'Brian, interview in The Independent (15 March 1992)
- The journey of the imagination to a remote place is child's play compared to a journey into another time.
- Thornton Wilder, in The Paris Review (1956)
- [On Shakespeare's Romans as Englishmen]
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Shakespeare und kein Ende ('Shakespeare without End') (1815)
- There is no book which is not of its own time; the painstaking historical novel Salammbo, whose characters are mercenaries during the Punic Wars, is a typical nineteenth-century French novel. The one thing we know for sure about Carthaginian literature, which may have been very rich, is that it could not have had a book like Flaubert's.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1969), in James Woodall, The Man in the Mirror of the Book (1996)
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