ESSAY; Truth Is Stronger Than Fiction

Essay in the New York Times. ON Page 8 of this issue, V. S. Naipaul argues that nonfiction is better suited than fiction to capturing the complexities of today’s world. Another major writer, the novelist Ian McEwan, expressed similar sentiments when he said that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, he turned to history books, and books on Islam and imperialism. ”For a while I did find it wearisome to confront invented characters,” McEwan said on ”The Charlie Rose Show” in March. ”I wanted to be told about the world. I wanted to be informed. I felt that we had gone through great changes, and now was the time to just go back to school, as it were, and start to learn.”

August 27, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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