Where much historical fiction gets entangled in the simulation of historical authenticity, Mantel bypasses those knots of concoction, and proceeds as if authenticity were magic rather than a science.
Standard historical fiction tends to consist of plausible stories that have been grafted onto enduring historical facts.
If Binet is as doubt-filled about fiction, and as passionate about historical witness, as he says he is, the scrupulous response would be to refrain from writing fiction, or to do a kind of historical research that is not attempted here.
Ms. PROSE: Historical fiction in the first person - I mean my mind is now going blank.
"It is historical fiction -- a noble genre going back to Shakespeare and well before -- not history, " he said.
Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
The book was also awarded the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.
Much of his more successful work has been pseudo-historical fiction, set in the first half of the 20th century and involving meticulous research.
In the process, factuality has also been blurred: "No, " an Oscar contender in subtitled Spanish, should be seen as fiction grounded in historical events.
At such moments, the reader starts developing a few scruples of his own, one of which is: a passage like this is neither good fiction nor meaningful historical writing.
The author, Cecelia Holland, mostly writes historical fiction, and she has an eye for narrative that really teases out motivations and a feel for what the era was like.
And since his sacking, it turns out that of the 230-odd aspiring writers of historical fiction, 78 were officers in Japan's air force, most of them close to their general.
Even though Pollack ostensibly transitions from quasi-memoir to quasi-historical fiction, he approaches his narrative with the enthusiasm of a writer who has been longing to break free from the strictures of reality.
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Layered over the historical fiction is a sci-fi element: The main character is a modern-day barman, Desmond Miles, who is forced to travel through time to relive the story of his ancestors and collect artefacts.
And I'm curious if you have any advice or if you can recommend any books, especially historical fiction, that have been successfully written in the first person, or maybe some potential pitfalls of either voice.
But even putting aside the fact that pre-war America is one of the richest settings of the modern era, in terms of potential for rich narrative, this book just feels more like fantasy than historical fiction.
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The Assassin's Creed video game series -- beyond its trademark murderous historical fiction -- is known for arriving in annual installments. 2013 is no exception, with French publisher Ubisoft recently revealing Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, a pirate-centric next entry in the long-running franchise.
Historical and science fiction author Neal Stephenson took to Kickstarter and voiced his frustration with swordplay in video games.
Many readers have recommended Michael Shaara's Pulitzer-Prize-winning "The Killer Angels" as a novel that superbly translates a historical event into fiction.
The fact that so many gamers do know something about Da Vinci from the games, which incorporated real history and historical figures into its fiction, is a plus for Starz moving forward if they chose to go the Spartacus route with the second season and unleash interactive entertainment.
Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.
Although I had met Mr. Unsworth and heard him speak at the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, I had known him long before as a historical novelist who changed the way I thought about history and fiction.
This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
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