Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“Can you remember, Acte...how much easier our belief in Nero made life for us in the old days? And can you remember the paralysis,… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“(Er) hat in unbegreiflicher Verblendung übersehen, daß ein Mensch auch ohne selbstständige Ideen und ohne Persönlichkeit in dem Augenblick Wesen und Inhalt annimt, in… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“In itself it is nothing. Nothing but a book: parchment, colouring, ink. Yet the most perishable material is at the same time the most… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
“I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
