・Historical novels are historical novels about understanding that humans don't change, or that there are parts that don't change in any era, and that they stand on top of it and write something like the universality of human beings, something that you can sympathize with as the same human being (p11)
・Historical novels write humans, readers must be made to feel empathy, historical studies write eras, and readers must be surprised (p13)
・I live every day in a Westernized world, but to be honest, it's stifling and unbearable, and I feel cramped no matter what I do. If you really don't have a place and seek comfort in such a situation, your destination will naturally become good old Japan, in other words, history (p29)
・England was the leading runner in the industrial revolution, and it had already been struck by a wave of modernization in the sense that this was capitalism. We moved from a world where most people lived on farms to a world where they had to work in factories, and we were forced to change from living according to seasons and weather to a lifestyle dominated by clocks and numbers. The desire to run away from there still heads towards history, and the diagram that historical novels are liked to be read was the same in England (p34)
・Lies always creep into history, and if you say lies are terrible, you can say direction/adaptation, or exaggeration, exaggeration, or exaggeration. Despite the differences between writers, they have a habit of trying to entertain readers (p42)
・Since it is originally a conversation sentence where people tend to doubt whether it is true, there is no choice but to write the conversation as a lie. Conversation sentences are, after all, monopoly patents for historical novels (p59) The reason why dialogues are attractive is that the feelings of the characters appear there. There are things that naturally ooze out of conversation, including when happy or sad are not clearly put into words (p61)
・At the time of the 16th century, all Calvin Loyola Xavier were students and alumni of the Paris University School of Theology. The spirited young students were talking passionately about what to do with Christianity. From there, Calvin went to Switzerland, saying he would build a Protestant church. Loyola made up her mind to protect the old religion of Catholicism, and Xavier said he would pass it on to India and even Japan and set out (p90)
・It is said that the 18th century musician Mozart was the first to live on income from fees, fees, admission fees, etc. paid by the public (p92)
・A novelist gives life to the characters in the story as the god of the world of the work, and if you are a historical novelist, you give life to historical figures who have died, in other words, they bring them back to life (p99)
・If you're angry at a fact from the past, it means it hasn't become history yet (p114)
・European languages are roughly divided into Romance languages and Germanic languages; Italian, French, and Spanish all have Romance accents, and English, German, Dutch, and Swedish are within the range where they can be cleaned up with Germanic accents (P121)
