Such phenomena relate very immediately to my own work, in which myth can be all too real, and the real degenerate into fantasy.” He said, “I was long impressed by the woeful distinction between the historical Macbeth and Shakespeare's: by the swift transformation of E.M. In his works, Vansittart expressed his fascination with how time transforms historical facts into fantasy and myth. This must be partly due to my obsession with language and speculation at the expense of narrative, however much I relish narrative in others.” He said of his work, “My novels have been appreciated, if not always enjoyed, more by critics than the reading public, which shows no sign of enjoying them at all. For several decades he was acclaimed as England’s greatest living historical novelist.
Vansittart’s novels span eras from 2,000 BC to AD 1986.
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