Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li
Literary Friction
Fabian and Agnes Are the Real Authors
Fiction by definition is something made up fiction as you know make believe but as readers we both believe and we want to make believe to be true I think that's part of human nature. When the book is published Agnes is treated as though everything she and Fabian created was real from her own life right like everyone just collapses the distance between the author and the creation which is something that happens to authors of all kinds but I feel like it especially happens to female authors.
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