Thanks for those thoughts, especially the link to In the Earth and your review of same!
You're welcome! It did occur to me to wonder whether the current generation of lost pasts is related to the phenomenon of films and novels from the '40's and '50's in which WWII is mysteriously elided—Jo Walton has written about it in context of Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar (1949) and its effect on her own writing, but I have run into examples on my own time and they are genuinely weird, in that like Jo's experience of Brat Farrar they seem to be running along fine until you do the math. Obviously it would help if I could remember any titles, but maybe by tomorrow.
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Date: 2023-05-25 07:22 pm (UTC)You're welcome! It did occur to me to wonder whether the current generation of lost pasts is related to the phenomenon of films and novels from the '40's and '50's in which WWII is mysteriously elided—Jo Walton has written about it in context of Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar (1949) and its effect on her own writing, but I have run into examples on my own time and they are genuinely weird, in that like Jo's experience of Brat Farrar they seem to be running along fine until you do the math. Obviously it would help if I could remember any titles, but maybe by tomorrow.