The Imperfectionist
The Imperfectionists and its relation to news News and fiction are opposites of each other. News is an approximate truth based on journalistic work where research and reliable sources has been used to provide a description of an event. Fiction on the other hand is not bound to tell the truth. Nevertheless, both news and fiction is a version of reality because whereas news retells what has happened, fiction can discuss these events in a fictitious way and at the same time be realistic. This is why news and fiction are in one way related but in another way the two forms of writing are on opposite side of the literary rope. It is truth versus creativity (Lorenzo, 2014). However, one can be creative when writing about the truth and that ties news
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The novel is a collection of short stories about the people working at a newspaper in Rome. Through these stories, the reader learns about the characters’ work at the newspaper and their personal struggles. In this essay I will explore how Rachman interweaves fiction with historical development and changes in the news industry in a realistic manner.
The author of The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman, is an educated journalist who has worked as a foreign-desk editor, correspondent in Rome and as an editor at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. He has written from India, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Belgium, Britain and elsewhere. The Imperfectionists was published in 2010. Being a journalist writing a novel about journalists working in Rome, just like he did a few years before he wrote this novel, must have given him most of the inspiration he needed to write …show more content…
The reader gets information about how the paper is run, who runs it, what challenges the paper has to face when it comes to new technology, Internet and how society changes with these developments. The paper relies on people to read it but also people to run it and fill it with news. The editor-in-chief in the novel Kathleen Solson, claimed in 2004 there to be too critical of a time in history to write news stories about celebrities on the beach with fat folds – “we can leave that to the Internet”. There was the war on terror, the rise of Asia and climate change to mention some, that were the important news stories to report. The aims of the paper seemed to be that this newspaper would cover stories with quality and that would make the paper survive the modernising development, especially the Internet threat. “Whatever you want to call it – news, text, content – someone has to report it, someone has to write it, someone has to edit it. And I intend for us to do it better no matter the medium. We are the quality source among international newspapers” (p. 179). This is a part of Kathleen’s answer to a question to if the news industry is going to survive. The paper would want to be so good that getting a website is not necessary, but it proves not to
The novel is a collection of short stories about the people working at a newspaper in Rome. Through these stories, the reader learns about the characters’ work at the newspaper and their personal struggles. In this essay I will explore how Rachman interweaves fiction with historical development and changes in the news industry in a realistic manner.
The author of The Imperfectionists, Tom Rachman, is an educated journalist who has worked as a foreign-desk editor, correspondent in Rome and as an editor at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. He has written from India, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Belgium, Britain and elsewhere. The Imperfectionists was published in 2010. Being a journalist writing a novel about journalists working in Rome, just like he did a few years before he wrote this novel, must have given him most of the inspiration he needed to write …show more content…
The reader gets information about how the paper is run, who runs it, what challenges the paper has to face when it comes to new technology, Internet and how society changes with these developments. The paper relies on people to read it but also people to run it and fill it with news. The editor-in-chief in the novel Kathleen Solson, claimed in 2004 there to be too critical of a time in history to write news stories about celebrities on the beach with fat folds – “we can leave that to the Internet”. There was the war on terror, the rise of Asia and climate change to mention some, that were the important news stories to report. The aims of the paper seemed to be that this newspaper would cover stories with quality and that would make the paper survive the modernising development, especially the Internet threat. “Whatever you want to call it – news, text, content – someone has to report it, someone has to write it, someone has to edit it. And I intend for us to do it better no matter the medium. We are the quality source among international newspapers” (p. 179). This is a part of Kathleen’s answer to a question to if the news industry is going to survive. The paper would want to be so good that getting a website is not necessary, but it proves not to