Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 8:47:04 GMT
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write nonfiction, everyone is trying to prove you wrong, but when you publish fiction, everyone is trying to find some truth in it. Our tragic universe, Scarlett Thomas An essay is written to spread a truth , a discovery, to reveal a myth. When some truth is published, especially if it is historical or political, there is always someone ready to refute it. The reason, even in this case, is more than obvious: the truth has always hurt, very few are strong enough to face it, to accept it, to allow it to spread. A novel is written to tell a story , which can be an entertaining or engaging story , it can contain themes dear to the author or it can just be a novel to consume to spend pleasant free time.
It is natural, when reading some novels, to wonder whether it is a true story, whether the author has written a sort of fictionalized autobiography, whether he took inspiration from actual events. In the case of essays, the author must be able to defend what he has written, because the truth is the only objective an essay must have. In the Special Data case of novels, well, the author, in my opinion, has no obligation to confess whether the story told has a grain of truth or not, since he did not publish it as an essay, but as, in fact, a novel. Prolificity «To become a well-known author you have to write and print a book every year or so. The construction of an author is a slow process and has an obligatory premise: being in the bookstore with always new titles.» Erich Linder in That Fascist Pansa, Giampaolo Pansa This is certainly an interesting aspect, but it is also terrible at the same time.
It involves a prolificacy of ideas , but above all a prolificacy of completed stories that can be published. Nothing new under the sun, I would say: when I see some authors - not only Pansa, but also other local authors (like Andrea Camilleri and Maurizio De Giovanni, for example) and foreign writers (random examples like Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith, Ken Follett) who publish continuously, I have those authors always before my eyes, always in my mind. Reading their names in the various advertisements, you certainly don't struggle to understand who they are, even if you've never read them. They are now well-known names. A prolific author is like a blog that you publish continuously or, better yet, with a certain frequency: readers don't have to wonder if and when something new by their favorite author will come out, because they know from the start that it will be out soon.
It is natural, when reading some novels, to wonder whether it is a true story, whether the author has written a sort of fictionalized autobiography, whether he took inspiration from actual events. In the case of essays, the author must be able to defend what he has written, because the truth is the only objective an essay must have. In the Special Data case of novels, well, the author, in my opinion, has no obligation to confess whether the story told has a grain of truth or not, since he did not publish it as an essay, but as, in fact, a novel. Prolificity «To become a well-known author you have to write and print a book every year or so. The construction of an author is a slow process and has an obligatory premise: being in the bookstore with always new titles.» Erich Linder in That Fascist Pansa, Giampaolo Pansa This is certainly an interesting aspect, but it is also terrible at the same time.
It involves a prolificacy of ideas , but above all a prolificacy of completed stories that can be published. Nothing new under the sun, I would say: when I see some authors - not only Pansa, but also other local authors (like Andrea Camilleri and Maurizio De Giovanni, for example) and foreign writers (random examples like Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith, Ken Follett) who publish continuously, I have those authors always before my eyes, always in my mind. Reading their names in the various advertisements, you certainly don't struggle to understand who they are, even if you've never read them. They are now well-known names. A prolific author is like a blog that you publish continuously or, better yet, with a certain frequency: readers don't have to wonder if and when something new by their favorite author will come out, because they know from the start that it will be out soon.