Une ITW de Paul Kearney

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Une interview de Paul Kearney est disponible ici. C'est l'auteur de 10 000 - Au cœur de l'Empire, des Mendiants des mers et des Monarchies divines.

Solaris: Hi, Paul. Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions.
You clearly have a fascination with history. Even when you’re not drawing directly on real-world events – the sacking of Constantinople, the Anabasis – your work has a strongly historical feel. So why fantasy? Why not go the route of Cornwell or Iggulden and write historical fiction?
Paul Kearney: Maybe I will! I have thought about it, almost from day one in the job. In fact Richard Evans over at Gollancz was convinced I would move into historical fiction, especially after he first read Hawkwood. I guess what held me back was the knowledge that once I committed myself to a period and a set of circumstances, then I would be constrained by what actually happened. To take an example, my last but one book, The Ten Thousand had a plot that was very heavily based on the Anabasis, a piece of real history. I kept fairly close to the events of the actual history, partly as an experiment to see what it would be like, partly because the real history was a fantastic story anyway. Ultimately, I found it limiting, so for Corvus, which came next, I resolved not to be so pedantic about it, and it was definitely easier that way. So though I love history, and plunder it shamelessly for ideas, I’m still not sure about coming out of the closet and writing it without the patina of fantasy.