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Chapter 11: Narrative and Truth

Chapter 11: Narrative and Truth

pp. 151-166

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, University of Santa Barbara
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Summary

As I noted in Chapter 3, when it was revealed that Barbellion (Bruce Cummings) had not died when the narrative of his life said he had, the whole public reception of his narrative changed, even though every word of it remained the same. But how would the public reception have changed had Bruce Cummings published his diary as a novel, that is, as fiction? The answer is easy: there would have been no disappointment, for the simple reason that Barbellion would never have existed, at least in real life.

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