While writing this story of exile, I characterized it as a “fictionalized” autobiography. The quotation marks emphasize the vexed question of the difference between fiction and autobiography, a question I recollect Grace Paley dismissing as a concern only booksellers might have with shelf labeling. Yet where does the truth of an individual’s history reside in a narrative labeled autobiographical? Is Mrs. Dalloway more fictional than To the Lighthouse? Is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man more autobiographical than Ulysses? Did Dante really meet Beatrice in the streets of Florence? Did everything that Maxine Hong Kingston related in her memoir of a girlhood among ghosts really happen? Is Marcel Proust?. [download]
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