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20074331 No.20074331 [Reply] [Original]

What's the point of historical fiction when historical nonfiction exists?

>> No.20074339

how else are you gonna live out your Mary Sue love triangles set in Nero's Rome?

>> No.20074343

all history is fiction

>> No.20074346

Because not everything is covered by the historical sources. It allows us to fill in certain events and see them up close.

>> No.20074352

>>20074331
Women can read them and feel like they can argue with you about heavier materials

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>>20074352

>> No.20074368

Isnt it just fiction set in a different time period? Or does it try to teach history. Idk havent read any

>> No.20074386

War and Peace is historical fiction.

>> No.20074392

>>20074363
In sorry but your typical woman can not take in literature unless some part of it makes their genitals twitch.

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20074396

With non-fiction you are severely limited in what you can show behind closed doors and thus it is very hard to get across any sort of 'point' of a story. Try making even a factually-backed 'based on a true story' movie like The Last Duel but not being allowed to fill in the gaps, you simply can't do it. You wouldn't be able to show the hidden emotional dilemmas that (you could reasonably assume) lead to the events, and you certainly couldn't declare things like someone's guilt or innocence of a crime.

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>>20074331
>historical nonfiction exists
The fuck it does. After years of reading "history" books, I decided I may as well just read historical fiction novels, as they are more fun and just as accurate.

>> No.20074487

This make more sense if you accept that large parts of history are literally fiction. History is just the canon of written materials depicting the past, it doesn't mean "peer reviewed and sworn to be objective fact", lots of questionable things get entered into it (usually due to a lack of better choices). In fact, the concept of "history" is relatively modern, we didn't have anything remotely close to modern 'historians' until ancient Rome (meaning they set about the record the actual facts of events that happened, and not just 'tell a story'). Before then, it was all heavily entwined with religion and situational interests of the group writing it down, and no one saw this as an issue.

>> No.20075612

there are historical truths and plausible interpretations that historicists won't touch, and in those cases fiction will get you closer to the truth