“ALlobijixixions’ autobiographies are lies, “George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1898.” I don’t mean unconscious, accidentally false. “The validity of autobiographic writing under review once again charges that the best memoir of salt passage is never the “Dishonestly honest” account of a couple of victory victory as it is entered.
Even if you are not one of Two million the people bought in the book, and have not yet seen the film This summer is released, no doubt you will know the story of 630-mile journey to a couple of shore after dealing with homelessness and a diagnosis of terminal disease. Published in 2018, the passage of salt struck a chord during locking as readers discovered the relief of walking and nature during the season. But this story of the wild campsites, not discussing the miraculous hike hike (including withdrawal stopping to withdraw the word Winn has defines The article as “grotesquely unfair (and) that is very wrong”.
Memoir will be a fraudulent explosion genre. “I feel involved. But more importantly, I feel you betray millions of readers,” Oprah Winfrey told James Frey’s public, after his addiction memoir is a million small pieces, pressed on his book club with the listings of best exposed As weighed in 2006. Readers feel the same betrayed with Winn – perhaps more. Frey, just printing a novel After 20 years, no bones are about his unstoppable as a narrator and former addict. Follow muddy steps to memoirs like Helen MacDonald’s H for for hawkAmy Liptrot’s The outrun and Again to the hare by Chloe Dalton (restored for this year Prize with women for non-fiction), The passage of salt is a part of the more rigid form of redeeming the nature of the nature blooming after the suffering memoir.
The line between the fact and fiction is never avoided blurred. No one is surprised that memoirists do not have or decorated details, or that novels ran their own life. The writers need to navigate this conundrum. Julie Myerson is widely criticized For writing about the addiction of his son in his 2009 memoir The lost child. In 2022 he addressed the same issues with a novel titled FOOLISH. “This book is completely made. It is also perfectly true,” he said to a Talk to Guardian.
Autofftion existed in this gray area. The genre, claiming the Nobel Laureate Annie ErnauxGarners accused of but rarely sales. If the salt passage is traded as autofiction the cry can be avoided. But success rests to believe that it is a real story.
Although the odd blow is about a changing culture of literature, categories are not just about where titles go to bookshopoppops. Readers should know what is truth or fiction. Many readers who have provided relief from the salt passage not to be distracted by online benefit infakys or miracles. During post-fact, the credibility of printing credibility is important. The Penguin logo is a symbol of trust.
Like Oscar Werde says “Truth is rare to be pure and not except”. Readers understand it. But it is duty to memoir writers to tell their truth, however change or complicate it.
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