Vansittart the past was never wholly past, and rarely romantic. "Parsifal" (1988), after beginning in ancient Gaul, wended its way to Heinrich Himmler's headquarters in Westphalia.įor Mr.
"The Death of Robin Hood" (1981), for example, began in Sherwood Forest about 3,000 BC, leapt forward to the era of King John, took another leap to the Luddite rebellions of 1812, and ended up in the Britain of the 1930s. Vansittart confounded expectations in a much-abused literary genre, writing in language free of "forsooths," adopting a disabused if not cynical tone, and roaming freely over the centuries. NEW YORK - Peter Vansittart, the English writer who breathed new life into the historical novel by mingling myth with modernity and injecting 20th-century preoccupations into historical settings as various as Roman Britain, medieval France, and 16th-century Germany, died on Oct.
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