Reminds me of the premise of Stranger in a strange land. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Bruce A. Metcalf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Bruce Metcalf wrote: >> >> I'm curious to know how the list feels about the junction of fiction and >>> history. Your thoughts? >>> >> >> There are two kinds of fiction (I know of) that play with this junction, >> from opposite ends: The Roman à clef [1] and the secret history [1]. >> While >> the former is a fictionalised account of actual events, the latter is more >> interesting to me, being a fiction presented as reality which was until >> now >> hidden from the public. >> > > Not that I disagree with this, but... > > I wanted to see how people here felt about the thought that history -- the > stuff presented as facts -- is more often a fiction assembled from the > scraps of evidence left by the past, with the gaps and motivations filled > in by the historian. > > Is this the general opinion of what history is and what historians do, or > were you thinking of something different? > > Just curious.... > > Cheers, > Bruce > >
