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Conversations with Shelby Foote

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Carter, William C.

Paperback

Series: Literary Conversations

Historiography

ISBN10: 0878053867
ISBN13: 9780878053865
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Mississippi
Published: Mar 1 1989
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
Shelby Foote once said that he did not know of anything he had learned about the writing of novels that couldn't also be applied to the writing of history. In his development, the merging of these special talents has made Foote almost unique in the history of American literature, for few other great modern authors have proved to be master storytellers in both fiction and historical narrative.

In Conversations with Shelby Foote, this novelist-historian expresses penetrating and often humorous remarks about major modern writers as well as about the classical writers of fiction, plays, poetry, and historical narrative. In one interview Foote explains how Homer's Iliad and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past were his chief models for writing his history of the Civil War.

Foote recounts also what it was like to grow up in a small Mississippi town in the first half of the twentieth century and tells how his observations of African Americans and whites of all classes

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