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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 | ||