in Chinese Postman, Brian Castro transforms fiction into a mechanism of truth
- Written by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
Vanitas still life – Aelbert Jansz van der Schoor (c.1640-72)Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsThere was a point in the 1990s where it became fashionable to emphasise that autobiography was fiction. This proposition sprang up to complement an earlier stricture that emerged with the New Criticism of the mid-20th century – namely,...
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