A verbatim-seeming fiction can exceed invented drama

Evidence

It reads more like a vast transcript of the Revolution, verbatim, than like something invented. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 833

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 833
• XREF: connects to: Generous books overflow rigid categories and continuously exceed reader expectations — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 970; Imagined encounters with death generate the deepest life in fiction — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 103; Fiction multiplies ambiguity and is written with the wrong, hesitant hand — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 17 (+1 more)

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