History is full of destruction and certain death, but fictional people may live forever, in an eternal redemption. It was subtle of Penelope Fitzgerald to use this as the epigraph for her historical novel about the poet, “ The Blue Flower,” implying, as it does, the novel’s best powers of restoration.
“Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history,” Novalis said. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
