Conversations with Biographical Novelists
Subtitle: Truthful Fictions across the Globe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Oct 18, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781501341465
Description: "Interviews with some of the world's most famous biographical novelists that provide new insights into how novelists from China to Morroco to Canada to South Africa deal with the moving boundaries that separate truth, history, and fiction."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

"How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Ti̤bn̕, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature. These conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe