Much of fiction operates in essence like a fable: An obviously imaginary story tells some truth about the real world through the artifice of plot and character. While the novels of literary powerhouses like Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo have used this approach to tackle big ideas like capitalism and terrorism, the current zeitgeist drives at verity by going deeper into the singular consciousness of the writer, relying less on stagecraft. Flirting with the very edge of fiction, these novels reflect the rise of what might be classified as memoir-fiction.
Hasn't that often been the case?
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