Ben Hoare - Storytelling & Serial Autobiography

Novelists who lie

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

It's strikingly common for works which merge fact and fiction to include some form of paratextual apology or explanation that fusses over the work's precise status.I've already touched on this when discussing Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman, whose 'Author's Note' tries to draw a line between the book's ...