The Afterlife of Character
Richard Hughes Gibson
The greatest characters possess an irrepressible vitality.
The greatest characters possess an irrepressible vitality.
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.
Austen’s sparing use of attributions is also a sign of her confidence in her art. She dispensed with unnecessary scaffolding.
The very short story can conjure a fiction out of almost nothing.
If there is a war between database and narrative in Cervantes and Sterne, it is a merry one.