Was it 'Heinrich Heidt' who said:"All fiction is history,all history is fiction"?

Answer 1

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epigraph from Benedetto Croce: ‘All history is fiction, just as all fiction is history - however the eaxct quote evades any searches: but due to translations, he could be the one. -see source-


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"Fiction," André Gide 1869-1951 suggested, "is history that might have taken place, and history is fiction that has taken place. ...perhaps André Gide's statement, “Fiction is history which might have taken place,


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George Orwell: ''Fiction is history that didn't happen, and history is fiction that did.

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not just that all history is fiction (Heath 1977) but also and simultaneously. that all fiction is history. From the perspective of postmodern mechanisms of ...

Maximilien Robespierre observed "Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction. ...

Hawthorne's nativist
fiction is “history imagined fantastically awry”

Answer 2

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Notes on the History of FictionThis is why history has to be written and rewritten from one generation to ... All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; Fiction Issue; Notes on the ...
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