In the Light of What We Know: A Novel by Zia Haider Rahman

Author:Zia Haider Rahman [Rahman, Zia Haider]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

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A novel was something made up; that was almost its definition. At the same time it was expected to be true, to be drawn from life; so that part of the point of a novel came from half rejecting the fiction, or looking through it to a reality.

Later, when I had begun to identify my material and had begun to be a writer, working more or less intuitively, this ambiguity ceased to worry me. In 1955, the year of this breakthrough, I was able to understand Evelyn Waugh’s definition of fiction (in the dedication to Officers and Gentlemen, published that year) as “experience totally transformed”; I wouldn’t have understood or believed the words the year before.

—V. S. Naipaul, Reading & Writing: A Personal Account

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