What a strange novel Giuliano da Empoli has written!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Historical fiction is quite a popular genre. It mixes real-life history \u2013 and characters who were people in real life \u2013 with fictional characters and made-up storytelling. According to Wikipedia<\/a>, \u201cAn essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the depicted period.\u201d …<\/p>\n\n\n\n What we see in The Wizard of the Kremlin<\/em>, is a work of historical fiction, yes, mixing real life with invention, but one involving a narrative about events that were unfolding in real time alongside its writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/donnordbergwriting\/p\/the-wizard-of-the-kremlin-strange<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a strange novel Giuliano da Empoli has written! Historical fiction is quite a popular genre. It mixes real-life history \u2013 and characters who were people in real life \u2013 with fictional characters and made-up storytelling. According to Wikipedia, \u201cAn essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays … Continue reading Analysis: ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-don-nordberg-is-on-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stourbend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Keep reading<\/h5>\n\n\n\n