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Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him…

— Félix J. Palma

“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that we’re still…

— The editors n+1

“This is not a study undertaken lightly. A prominent man's legacy is at stake. It is an evocative tale of a spectacular and ultimately…

— Elliot Cartledge

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

— Henry David Thoreau

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

— E. L. Doctorow

“The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on…

— Michael Chabon

“At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality…

— Jon Krakauer

“He knows different now. It's the living that chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like…

— Hilary Mantel

“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had to do…

— María Dueñas

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“To learn that his treasures had been lost months ago, and so far away, was no different from learning of the death, similarly distant…

— Susan Sontag

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy