Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 23:05:11 GMT -8
he following passage is taken from the novel The Razor's Edge by Maugham. Getting to know men is very difficult and I believe that you can only get to know your own compatriots well. Men and women, in fact, are not only themselves but also the region in which they were born, the apartment in the city or the country house where they learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old fairy tales they listened to, the foods they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they practiced, the poets they read and the God they believed in. They became what they are as a result of all these things and these things cannot be understood by hearing about them: you have to have experienced them. Only those who have them within themselves know them.
And since you can only get to know foreigners by observing them, it is difficult to make them live with verisimilitude in the pages of a book. What do you think? In some ways he's right, of course. When I think back to the 70s and 80s, which I lived to the full, I am struck by nostalgia for that Italy and also by the desire to write stories set in the Special Data Italy of those eras. And, who knows?, maybe one day I will. Some half-idea began to take root in my head a long time ago. In some cases, in my opinion, good documentation combined with a series of resources are a solid starting point for writing stories set in locations never known . A writer cannot remain a prisoner in his country. The connection between the setting and the topic of the story History comes first. Unless we want to tell the fictionalized life of a famous person, we need to focus on the story. On history and also on the narrative genre.
Going back to the list of novels I would like to write, I have proof of the fact that for me the setting was a consequence of the story I would like to tell or the literary genre to which it belongs: PU (science fiction) : it is a multi-genre novel , therefore it has various settings, which I chose based on the 6 stories. R (science fiction) : European setting; the story is a tribute to an author, I set it in that writer's country. K (fantasy) : desert setting, because the story requires it. IC (fantasy) : Italian setting, because the story requires it. IVDA (science fiction) : Nordic setting, because the narrative genre requires it. DBR (humorous detective story) : American setting, with Italian and Italian-American characters, because the narrative genre requires it.
And since you can only get to know foreigners by observing them, it is difficult to make them live with verisimilitude in the pages of a book. What do you think? In some ways he's right, of course. When I think back to the 70s and 80s, which I lived to the full, I am struck by nostalgia for that Italy and also by the desire to write stories set in the Special Data Italy of those eras. And, who knows?, maybe one day I will. Some half-idea began to take root in my head a long time ago. In some cases, in my opinion, good documentation combined with a series of resources are a solid starting point for writing stories set in locations never known . A writer cannot remain a prisoner in his country. The connection between the setting and the topic of the story History comes first. Unless we want to tell the fictionalized life of a famous person, we need to focus on the story. On history and also on the narrative genre.
Going back to the list of novels I would like to write, I have proof of the fact that for me the setting was a consequence of the story I would like to tell or the literary genre to which it belongs: PU (science fiction) : it is a multi-genre novel , therefore it has various settings, which I chose based on the 6 stories. R (science fiction) : European setting; the story is a tribute to an author, I set it in that writer's country. K (fantasy) : desert setting, because the story requires it. IC (fantasy) : Italian setting, because the story requires it. IVDA (science fiction) : Nordic setting, because the narrative genre requires it. DBR (humorous detective story) : American setting, with Italian and Italian-American characters, because the narrative genre requires it.