👤Author
Name: Ileana Mihăilă
Affiliation: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Department of French Language and Literature
Contact: ileanamihaila59@gmail.com
📄Article
Citation Recommendation: Mihăilă, Ileana. „Le probleme de la veracite: le roman historique et le roman en tant qu’histoire”. Synthesis, no. XLI, 2014, pp. 77-82
Title: LE PROBLEME DE LA VERACITE: LE ROMAN HISTORIQUE ET LE ROMAN EN TANT QU’HISTOIRE
Pages: 77-82
Language: French
URL: https://synthesis.ro/pdf/2014/XLI/7_I_Mihaila.pdf
Abstract
What are the connections between literature and history? To what extent can literature be considered to be faithful (or unfaithful!) to the historical event? Is the novel a credible source of historical information (or simply formation) for the reader? These are the main questions that this paper, The Problem of the Veracity: Historical Novel and Novel-as-History, intends to answer, starting from the definition of the historical novel. However, in which area could literary narration manage to give its reader the historical event in a shape that is as close to the bareness that would grant it documentary value? Paradoxically, literature and specifically the novel whose action is contemporary to the moment of writing are, through the subjectivity assumed by means of its very definition as literature, more objective. Maybe the real historical novel is a novel-as[1]history…
Keywords: literature, history, historical novel, realist novel, objectivity