![]() ![]() Tolstoy was scolded for presuming to know what Napoleon thought at Borodino, but we now reverently accept a novelist's assertion of what Virginia Woolf felt as she put stones in her coat pockets on the bank of the Ouse. Novelists generally claim the right to rearrange or suppress facts and invent non-facts in order to arrive, not at a biographical representation of historical figures, but at a re-creation of them – not the "mere" description of a life, but the truth of it. I don't know how closely Ghost Light follows what is known of John Millington Synge's relationship with Molly Allgood. And when the fashion runs to fictionalising the lives of actual people, what better than the love story of a young, doomed Irish genius and a young, beautiful Irish actress? W hatever the current fashion in fiction, there will always be readers to welcome a love story. ![]()
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