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Category: Crystal Cabinets

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    The Historical Novel

    The historian says to the reader, “Sir or Madam: We don’t know exactly what happened behind those closed doors, so neither you nor I should even ask.” The novelist says “Dear Reader, I know that you have human questions about all this, so I’ve used my imagination and my art to give you a story with all the intimate details that you desire, 90% true and 10% likely.” 

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    The Documentary Film

    Of the childhood and youth of Pujol little is known — only what he himself said decades later. There isn’t much reason to doubt his story, except, of course, that he was a liar without peer.

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    The Novel Without Fiction

    It’s an interesting idea: not a work of journalism that uses the narrative techniques of fiction, but a novel in which the author has deprived himself of an essential tool, one might say the defining tool of his craft: the license to invent, to make things up, to adjust the details of the narrative world for no other reason than to make the story better. Why restrict himself so?

David Brendan O'Meara on substack

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