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domenica 21 aprile 2013

Historical Fiction


The Kite Runner, novel by Khaled Hosseini published in 2003 and movie by Marc Foster (2007) 

Art Spiegelmann's Maus, graphic novel (1991) about the Shoah

Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose (1980) and the film by Jean-Jacques Annaus (1986)


Do you agree with the following statement?
‘The historian, if honest, gives us a photograph; the storyteller gives us a painting.’

From ‘Historical Fiction for our Global Times’, Leon Garfield



Please answer the following question.

‘You have to write an historical novel, what would you write about and why? (Think about a) characters, plot, style, themes, and message) .’


Useful link
http://historicalnovelsociety.org/


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