About the Author:
Leonora Flis earned her Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She also works as a freelance journalist, film and book critic and a literary translator.
Review:
Factual Fictions offers a compelling and comprehensive new evaluation of the literary importance and the historical value of the modern version of the genre that is deeply rooted in the cultural, political, and social upheavals of the 1960s America the nonfiction novel. It builds on various theoretical and socio cultural premises and perspectives, emphasizing the precarious question of adherence to truth claims and referentiality in the nonfiction novel. Flis's book represents a singularly welcome addition to literary scholarship in that it is a tool for rethinking the reader's understanding of the fictional and the factual. --Jerneja Petri , Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Factual Fictions offers a compelling and comprehensive new evaluation of the literary importance and the historical value of the modern version of the genre that is deeply rooted in the cultural, political, and social upheavals of the 1960s America the nonfiction novel. It builds on various theoretical and socio cultural premises and perspectives, emphasizing the precarious question of adherence to truth claims and referentiality in the nonfiction novel. Flis's book represents a singularly welcome addition to literary scholarship in that it is a tool for rethinking the reader's understanding of the fictional and the factual. --Jerneja Petri , Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
In an era when the boundaries between fact and fiction have become more permeable in public discourse, when distinctions between the memoir and novel are contested with increasing frequency, Flis s book is provocative and timely. --Mark J. Madigan, Nazareth College of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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