What Fiction Can Do In Times Like Ours – Gospodinov
“A person with taste is less susceptible to flimsy propaganda. They can see all the political kitsch that underlies nationalism.”
“A person with taste is less susceptible to flimsy propaganda. They can see all the political kitsch that underlies nationalism.”
How do we keep our narratives on war true? Do fiction and non-fiction have equal responsibilities to the truth of combat? Phil Klay speculates.
I suppose accepting the importance of internal conflict is difficult for any American boy. After all, I was taught to be strong. To write “reflectively” about “feelings” was, in 1978, a girlie thing to do.
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