1. Umberto Eco
An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." (Eco, 1984) Eco explains how the historical fiction writer must become immersed in historical evidence: to tell a story, "you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." ... Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as ...
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- Approx Pages: 19
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate