Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 4:27:16 GMT
I like writing genre stories and reading novels of various literary genres more and more. I feel at home here, both when I write and when I read. A literary genre offers me stories and satisfaction that the current world cannot give me. I therefore wanted to think of other reasons that could push an author to choose genre fiction, beyond mere personal satisfaction and pure personal taste. Reasons that give the author something that perhaps other fiction will never be able to give, especially if the author is writing his first narrative work. A spacetime context that is easier to define I'm not talking about the creation of the world in which to set our story, but about a well-defined context in space and time : A western novel encompasses a period of time between more or less between 1850 and the early 1900s and limited to the Western United States (otherwise what western would it be?).
A detective novel is usually set in a city: all that remains is to establish the year, but all the detective stories I have read were stories contemporary with the author. A traditional fantasy novel is set in a fictional world, which follows its own chronology. A science fiction novel is usually set in the future, which gives us a lot of freedom Special Data about locations. But there are several subgenres of science fiction, which however help the author greatly to limit the context to be dealt with. A historical novel gives us context on a silver platter. Paraphrasing a definition of context from the Treccani dictionary, we can write that, for the literary genre, the context is a "complex of circumstances or facts that constitute and characterize a specific story". Limited reference readings I'm talking about both books to read to learn about the literary genre and books to read for documentation .
Tell the truth, my novel in progress is a multi-genre novel , so in this case at least the readings were varied, but always limited to specific genres. Anyone who wants to write a western story will have to read the numerous western fiction from the first half of the 20th century and perhaps also some more modern westerns (Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry). And for documentation you will find various books on the Far West, the Civil War, the native tribes, etc. Perhaps crime fiction is a little complicated, especially if you want to set the stories in today's Italy: investigation methods have changed a lot and you will need to be well informed. In some Stephen King novels, in the part about thanks, we read that he spoke to sheriffs and prison directors. I imagine an Italian author trying to do the same with a commissioner and a director of a penitentiary in Rome and, I don't know why, it seems like an impossible mission.
A detective novel is usually set in a city: all that remains is to establish the year, but all the detective stories I have read were stories contemporary with the author. A traditional fantasy novel is set in a fictional world, which follows its own chronology. A science fiction novel is usually set in the future, which gives us a lot of freedom Special Data about locations. But there are several subgenres of science fiction, which however help the author greatly to limit the context to be dealt with. A historical novel gives us context on a silver platter. Paraphrasing a definition of context from the Treccani dictionary, we can write that, for the literary genre, the context is a "complex of circumstances or facts that constitute and characterize a specific story". Limited reference readings I'm talking about both books to read to learn about the literary genre and books to read for documentation .
Tell the truth, my novel in progress is a multi-genre novel , so in this case at least the readings were varied, but always limited to specific genres. Anyone who wants to write a western story will have to read the numerous western fiction from the first half of the 20th century and perhaps also some more modern westerns (Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry). And for documentation you will find various books on the Far West, the Civil War, the native tribes, etc. Perhaps crime fiction is a little complicated, especially if you want to set the stories in today's Italy: investigation methods have changed a lot and you will need to be well informed. In some Stephen King novels, in the part about thanks, we read that he spoke to sheriffs and prison directors. I imagine an Italian author trying to do the same with a commissioner and a director of a penitentiary in Rome and, I don't know why, it seems like an impossible mission.