In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.
Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
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