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Comment: Fails the requirements of WP:NBOOK, lacks any references or sources. Dan arndt (talk) 08:46, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
| Author | Nancy Huston |
|---|---|
| Genre | Essai |
Publication date | October 20, 2008 |
| Pages | 197 |
| ISBN | 978-1552787540 |
The Tale-Tallers is an essay written by the canadian novelist Nancy Huston, and published in 2008 by the publishing house Actes Sud.
Summary
editNancy Huston start with the question asked by an imprisoned woman at a writting workshop : : "What's the meaning of inventing stories ? Reality is already wonderful". Considering that our life are no different than stories from novels' characters and analysing the human history following the perspective of shaping imaginary and collective identities, this essay asserts that creating and sharing personal and collective fictions is what defines our humanity, "tale-tellers", whether it's about love or war. Novels, in such perspective, are the mean by which the author broaden her analysis to other fictions than the ones transmitted by our families and communities, and to access to this form of thinking which consists of writing its own life consciously.
Influences
editThe guideline of the documentary Tomorrow was inspired by The Tale-Tellers of Nancy Huston (which "insist on the propension of humans to think in terms of fictions, stories and narratives").
Editions
edit- Actes Sud, collection « Un endroit où aller », 2007 ISBN 2742775404.
- McArthur & Co Pub Ltd, 2008 ISBN 978-1552787540
Notes and references
editCategory:Essays about literature Category:French essays Category:Litterature Category:French literary theorists
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