Gorji: Poor data wrecks history novels
23 January 2012
Talking about history novels, history researcher Zahir Siamian Gorji says the most significant matter of history novels is holding poor information about real past events and characters."
He said:" History novels recreate the reality however literary texts which are a branch of novels intend to look at the past. In stories imagination is included and the existence of the incident in the past makes no difference for the author of history novels."
Gorji added:" History and literature have always enjoyed a specific relationship and history texts were mostly written in literary styles."
He then talked about the similarities of history texts and novels saying first are the author's imagination, then their narrating style and finally recreating the past.
He then said that in historical texts the data and information is based on documentations and evidences but in history novels the writer tries to describe every thing real.
He added that if the author's imagination is accompanied with a criticizing point of view, then the fictional elements can be correctly used for writing history novels.
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