Why is it called The Secret History?
The title of The Secret History comes from Procopius’s 6th-century history of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. I do not know anywhere near enough about Byzantine history to make anything of this allusion, so I will leave that to wiser heads than mine to discuss in the comments.
Who is The Secret History based on?
Most significantly, perhaps, Procopius’s The Secret History, from which Tartt took her title, is basically a burn book aimed at the emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora.
What do they study in The Secret History?
It has a classic lonely narrator. At Hampden he is intoxicated to find himself in the company of the five eccentric, conceited, clever undergraduates who study Greek together and seal themselves off from the rest of the students.
Is there a film of The Secret History?
Pakula snapped up film rights for Warner Brothers when The Secret History was published, with no less than Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne signed on to write the screenplay and Scott Hicks set to direct. But Pakula died a few years later in a 1998 car crash, and his Secret History project never got off the ground.
What is secret history?
A secret history (or shadow history) is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.
Does The Secret History have LGBT characters?
Francis Abernathy is a gay character from The Secret History.
Who is Judy poovey?
Judy Poovey is a character in The Secret History. A costume-design major from L.A. whose turn-ons include MTV, workouts with Jane Fonda, and, unaccountably, the priggish narrator-protagonist, Richard Papen, she appears in the novel only a handful of times. Every scene she’s in, though, she steals.
What age should you read The Secret History?
Overall, my age rating would be 13+.
Is Donna Tartt writing a new novel?
Her new book, The Goldfinch, is her most ambitious undertaking. “The process was different in that it was three places—Park Avenue, Las Vegas, and Amsterdam—that dictated the story, and it takes place over a much longer span of time,” Tartt says.
Is the Atlas six LGBT?
He’s clearly an important character, but I don’t have much of a sense for him at all. I wanted more from him. Oh, and don’t be misled by people calling this an LGBT read. Parisa indicates she has slept with women, but not necessarily that she’s attracted to them (a distinction that makes sense for her character).
Where is Richard Papen from?
Plano, California
In 1983, Richard Papen leaves his hometown of Plano, California, for the elite Hampden College in Vermont to study Ancient Greek.
