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This series of essays consider the renaissance of the historical novel. Using examples from contemporary novelists, there are discussions on the novel of wartime experience; the variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented and the "Darwinian novel". There is also an insight into the author's own translation of historical facts into fiction in the two novellas that make up "Angels and Insects". The author also explores the European revival of interest in myth, folktale and fairy tales.
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A.S. Byatt is that wonderful figure, a creative writer who is also equally at home in the seminar room, having taught at the University of London for many years, before winning the Booker Prize for her novel Possession in 1990. In On Histories and Stories she pursues one of her most recent interests, developed in her novel The Biographer's Tale, of the "sense of a new possibility of narrative energy" in what Byatt see as "the sudden flowering of the historical novel in Britain" in the last 50 years, in the work of Anthony Burgess, Penelope Fitzgerald, William Golding, Muriel Spark and Lawrence Norfolk. The seven essays that constitute this collection attempt to explain this fascination with history, ranging from the recent attraction of the Second World War in novels like Julian Barnes' Staring at the Sun and Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, via the evocation "of distant pasts" in recent novels, and the use of "precise scholarship" in historical fiction, to a marvellous concluding chapter on the Thousand and One Nights. Byatt argues that telling stories "is as much part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood", and that it "consoles us for endings with endless new beginnings" that defy death. On Histories and Stories is a formidably intelligent defence of storytelling, and rejection of high modernism; it is neither to be taken, nor read, lightly. --Jerry Brotton
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 070116946X
- ISBN 13 9780701169466
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages208
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