Most of What Follows is True - Places Imagined and Real Crummey MichaelPaperback softback
Most of What Follows is True - Places Imagined and Real Crummey MichaelPaperback softback In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations.…
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Most of What Follows is True - Places Imagined and Real Crummey MichaelPaperback softback
In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, Michael Crummey brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business.Most of What Follows Is True is an examination of the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the "real world" and the stories we tell to explain the world to ourselves.
Is there a point at which a fictionalization of history becomes a falsification of history? Is there a limit to the liberties a writer can take with the real world? What responsibilities do writers have to their readers, and to the historical and cultural materials they exploit as sources? Crummey
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