8/28/2023 0 Comments Dead men dont talk![]() ![]() How many unquestioned successes, Graves apart, come to mind? Precious few: H.F.M. ![]() Resurrecting the past (as I or any other historian knows too well) is about the hardest task a novelist can undertake. “To bring the dead to life,” Robert Graves wrote in one of his most memorable poems, “is no great magic.” Maestro of the historical novel though he was-who can resist the insidious spell of “I, Claudius”?-this mock-modest throwaway line was a plain lie.
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