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This book is fiction. But there is always a chance that such a work
This book is fiction. But there is always a chance that such a work
of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.
—Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast 230)
—Ernest Hemingway (''A Moveable Feast'' 230)


[I]t is the author’s contention that good fiction—if the writer
[I]t is the author’s contention that good fiction—if the writer
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opportunity—they can create superior histories out of an enhancement
opportunity—they can create superior histories out of an enhancement
of the real, the unverified, and the wholly fictional.
of the real, the unverified, and the wholly fictional.
—Norman Mailer (Harlot’s Ghost 1287–8)
—Norman Mailer (''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'' 1287–8)


{{dc|dc=W|hat is the rhetoric of modernism?}} Is the Modern novel “the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God?”{{sfn|Lukács|1971|p=88}} If so,why do religious themes still appear? Are they the Cheshire Cat’s grin, nostalgic echoes of a vanished age, cosmic footprints left in the wasteland of Modernity? Or are
{{dc|dc=W|hat is the rhetoric of modernism?}} Is the Modern novel “the epic of a world that has been abandoned by God?”{{sfn|Lukács|1971|p=88}} If so,why do religious themes still appear? Are they the Cheshire Cat’s grin, nostalgic echoes of a vanished age, cosmic footprints left in the wasteland of Modernity? Or are