History vs Literature
The difference between history and literature The key difference: History promises to tell the truth. Literature includes fiction, which by definition is not the truth. for example: Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut wrote Mother Night based on a real person: an American who lived in Berlin before and during World War II and who did broadcast Nazi propaganda on the radio. Vonnegut believed that this man was really an American spy, and he wrote his novel to demonstrate the point. But ... this is the key point ... Vonnegut may have been right or wrong on this matter. His novel does not promise us to be the truth and nothing else. Fiction has no place in history. But history can have a place in literature, both fact and fiction. Main Difference – History vs Literature History Literature History and literature are two important sub-disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences. In simple terms, the difference betwee...