Ok, I see Mantel's novel is the source of many "issues" ;-) Basically 1) I'd have no problem with fiction like Przybyszewska's or Büchner's, which are trying to be honest with the real people included in the plot. 2) I admit I do feel uneasy about fiction with takes real people and plays with them without any regard to their real ideas and attitudes. Moreover, I observe that as hardly anyone bothers to read primary sources and scholarly works, the fiction often takes place of the documented past in many people's historical imagination. Which brings us back to the point 2.
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Date: 2009-10-18 12:07 pm (UTC)Basically
1) I'd have no problem with fiction like Przybyszewska's or Büchner's, which are trying to be honest with the real people included in the plot.
2) I admit I do feel uneasy about fiction with takes real people and plays with them without any regard to their real ideas and attitudes.
Moreover, I observe that as hardly anyone bothers to read primary sources and scholarly works, the fiction often takes place of the documented past in many people's historical imagination. Which brings us back to the point 2.