![]() ![]() Once I finished the novel, there was a short “afterword” and it was sort of a question answer session between Giardina and an interlocutor. Did the biographer get it right? However, the problematic is more serious with a novel since one expects the novelist will take liberties. Of course one asks the same accuracy questions of a biography. But, is Denise Giardina’s Bonhoeffer the real Dietrich Bonhoeffer? In historical fiction does it matter? ![]() Now I have read Denise Giardina’s novel, been utterly gripped by it, moved by it, and even though I’ve known for 30 years or more that he died in a Nazi prison camp, I still cried in the last page when he was executed. I can never make up my mind about what such a novel SHOULD be, so how do I judge it? How much exact history how much novelistic creation should I expect? I’ve known of the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for many years, and while I had read a few articles about his work and some short mentions of him here and there, I had never done any more systematic study of his work or his life as a whole. Writing comments on a novel about an historical person is a special difficulty for me. SAINTS AND VILLAINS – A NOVEL By Denise Giardina Book review - SAINTS AND VILLAINS – A NOVEL By: Denise Giardina ![]()
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