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Post by vigilanti on Jun 19, 2006 18:57:09 GMT -5
In my Oxford edition of 3 musketeers the footnotes are as entertaining as the story itself. They explain that Dumas checked out "les Memories de M. d'Artagnan" by Gatien Courtilz de Sandras from the Marseilles public library...and never returned it. That in my book makes his musketeer tales documented fan fic... and we then are followig in his proud tradition! Imagine that if you will. Recently i have found he was not the only one to do this in his day. Another was Paul Feval. I just finished his book the secret of the Bastille' which was what we would recognize as a a crossover fic about d'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac! he has a whole series that take place between 3 musketeers and twenty years after! Borrowing characters was apparently a common practice... in a dumas biography i learned that in writing the man in the iron mask... Dumas killed of Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan specifically because He felt it was the only way to stop others from using them. It was apparently a heart rending decision as his son found him sobbing in his study one day... upon asking the reason the author replied that he had just killed Porthos. I must admit reading it made me cry too.  |
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Post by potc166 on Jun 20, 2007 14:24:08 GMT -5
thats very instering
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Post by queengwen on Jun 22, 2007 14:36:50 GMT -5
I never knew that, but it makes sense...
GL should do the same thing *shutters in anger*
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Post by sue on Apr 21, 2008 20:42:19 GMT -5
I'm not really sure I would term that as fanfic, though. Dumas took a real biography of a real person and fictionalized it, taking the original story, and then augmenting it, which is, I concede, where the similarity picks up...but more of historical fiction than fanfic, in my book.
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Post by vigilanti on Apr 24, 2008 14:17:44 GMT -5
It is just semantics really. I would say historical fiction is more hevily researched. The Authors try to make it as accurate and believeable as possible by referencing many different sourses. they weave the plot around a framework of facts. it educates the reader on people places or events in history while it entertains. Historical fanfiction is usually based on limited research and a greater amount of imagination. As i understand it, Dumas didn't have much of an education, he wove personal experiance as a soldier with imagination and only Stole names and sprinkled in historical bits from courtliz when it seemed appropriate. many writers of his day disparraged Dumas's writings because they were not literary and he didn't even attempt to be historically accurate....they were common works which appealed to the common people (who were equally uneduacted). The main reason dumas wasn't writing fan-fiction (asside from the fact that the term hadn't been coined yet) is the fact that he was writing to make money, and keep from being put in debtors prison...again. We have Copyright laws now so FF writers can't make money off other peoples ideas it is just write for fun.
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