I don't read the book myself and after reading your comments I don't think I would purchase this one. It sounds like a waste of money and time. I should save both, money and time for more interesting and books.
I'm writing fictional little tales about Hanriot, but when doing it, I try to make clear to persons who reads me that they are not the real thing, that this is not a biography and I don't pretend to discover Hanriot's real motivations by those writings...Sometimes I have the illusion that I know him better than historians but of course I know it ISN'T true and that this is a fantasy.
My problem with the kind of books like the Domecq's one is that they are not totally fiction and they are not totally history. A little like the cases of George Büchner's "Dantons Tod " and Stanislawa Prybyzewska (I'm writing her name straight?) "Danton's Case" and "Thermidor". Büchner and Prybyzewska believed they understood Danton's and Robespierre's inner beings, but they only put their own ideos into their heads...I suppose is pretty the same I do with Hanriot...but of course my works is by far, less impressive and less great than theirs.
I like reading GOOD historical fictions, but I know that when reading these, I end by knowing all about their authors ideas and few about real historical events and persons.
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Date: 2011-11-20 04:50 am (UTC)I'm writing fictional little tales about Hanriot, but when doing it, I try to make clear to persons who reads me that they are not the real thing, that this is not a biography and I don't pretend to discover Hanriot's real motivations by those writings...Sometimes I have the illusion that I know him better than historians but of course I know it ISN'T true and that this is a fantasy.
My problem with the kind of books like the Domecq's one is that they are not totally fiction and they are not totally history. A little like the cases of George Büchner's "Dantons Tod " and Stanislawa Prybyzewska (I'm writing her name straight?) "Danton's Case" and "Thermidor". Büchner and Prybyzewska believed they understood Danton's and Robespierre's inner beings, but they only put their own ideos into their heads...I suppose is pretty the same I do with Hanriot...but of course my works is by far, less impressive and less great than theirs.
I like reading GOOD historical fictions, but I know that when reading these, I end by knowing all about their authors ideas and few about real historical events and persons.