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• Or, more specifically, has the metaphorical power of great fiction.
• I am talking here about something deadening and peculiar, the inability of all of us to speak to one another in any direct way,
• reflect the special interests of the young and the disaffiliated: their particular virtue is to be devoid of conventional press postures, so many of which rest on a quite factitious “objectivity.” Do not misread me: I admire objectivity very much indeed, but I fail to see how it can be achieved if the reader does not understand the writer’s particu...
• Didion has wrestled with the “I” character, which is to say with truth and perspective as it applied to, or appealed to, herself.
• Her narrative nonfiction is a question about the truth.