Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Literary Hoax, ‘The Most Underappreciated Genre In History’

Counterfeits such as James Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry and Clifford Irving’s Autobiography of Howard Hughes “incubate the circumstances of their composition, weaponizing the prevailing nostalgias and channeling the anxieties of their era while providing a window into the hearts of their author. They are, in other words, literature.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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