![]() ![]() The best of these works reveal truths hidden in the original books and give voice to those kept silent.įew writers have done this so skillfully as the Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud. ![]() But over the past half century, actual fiction writers have enjoyed lifting characters from famous books and fleshing out their lives - you know, Jean Rhys telling the back story of Rochester's mad wife from Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea, or Tom Stoppard making bleak comedy out of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet. You shouldn't speculate about how many children Lady Macbeth had or what job Holden Caulfield wound up doing as a grown-up. How?īack in college English, I was taught that it was foolish to think that fictional characters have any reality beyond the page. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Meursault Investigation Author Kamel Daoud ![]()
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