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'I've been asked for a memoir for this occasion yet I am uncomfortable writing directly about myself. I prefer the mask of fiction. In this preference it is self-deception I fear most, for who but the self-deceived would claim to be able to write with moral detachment about themselves? I am also cautious of the fate of WB Yeats, the poet, of whom Richard Ellmann wrote, 'The autobiographical muse enticed him only to betray him, abandoning him to ultimate perplexity as to the meaning of his experiences' (Yeats, 2). Memoir does not offer us a sure means for contacting the deeper dualities of the self. For his journey to the heart of darkness, fiction is a more certain, if more oblique , way.' (Author's introduction)
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The Mask of Fiction : A Memoir
Subjects:
- The Ancestor Game 1992 single work novel
- The Tivington Nott 1989 single work novel
- Watching the Climbers on the Mountain 1988 single work novel
- Conditions of Faith 2000 single work novel
- Landscape of Farewell 2007 single work novel
- Journey to the Stone Country 2002 single work novel
- Autumn Laing 2011 single work novel
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
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