Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li
Literary Friction
Is It a Literary Deception or a Hoax?
Fabian and Agnes are co-authors of their lives they really make up the entire world for each other. I have seen that in many you know childhood friendships because this is the period of time when they can make up their own stories. For Fabian andAgnes it's even more extreme than that because they grabbing the countryside they grab in poverty, did not have food or toy to play with. They went out to the world to sell the story to the world sort of as their little girls rebellion against the world that's never been nice or kind to them. Yeah and it's this question of authenticity is so interesting to me and it really made me think as I was reading the
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