09-08-2013, 03:57 PM
I'll read it with trepidation born of the expectation of tortured prose.
Tosh -- and, I'm guessing, his readers -- would have been better served had he chosen to write non-fiction.
But of course I'll reserve judgment. For now.
Jan is right: history as fiction enjoys the powers to enlighten, persuade, and stimulate deep emotions that are unique to art and that no documentarian, regardless of medium, could ever hope to match.
But the technical and creative challenges inherent in all artistic expressions are almost always beyond the abilities of non-fiction writers to overcome.
Typing isn't writing.
Time will tell.
Tosh -- and, I'm guessing, his readers -- would have been better served had he chosen to write non-fiction.
But of course I'll reserve judgment. For now.
Jan is right: history as fiction enjoys the powers to enlighten, persuade, and stimulate deep emotions that are unique to art and that no documentarian, regardless of medium, could ever hope to match.
But the technical and creative challenges inherent in all artistic expressions are almost always beyond the abilities of non-fiction writers to overcome.
Typing isn't writing.
Time will tell.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene