Friday, February 13, 2009

Fact and fiction

What did you think of Bennett's mingling of fact and fiction — putting real people in made-up situations? Did you think the effectiveness of the novella depended on just that?
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3 comments:

Erin said...

I think so. I loved the technique. I found it really funny. I liked picturing the real people while I read.

4:19 PM, February 13, 2009
kc said...

I loved the technique, too, especially with someone like the Queen, who is so removed from the rest of us and so emotionally guarded. We can only speculate on what her interior life is like, and this book is splendid speculation, as was the movie "The Queen."

1:40 PM, February 17, 2009
Erin said...

Exactly. The monarchy is funny, because they don't do prime-time TV interviews like all the celebrities and politicians in America do. So you really don't know what they're like or what their attitudes might be.

7:34 PM, February 17, 2009

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