Mas'ud Zavarzadeh (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "The Stubborn Fact: The Exegetical Nonfiction Novel," in The Mythopoeic Reality: The Postwar American Nonfiction Novel, University of Illinois Press, 1976, pp. 93-127.
[In the following excerpt, Zavarzadeh analyzes Hiroshima as an exegetial nonfiction novel.]
The exegetical nonfiction novel is a fictual narrative registering the public or private events which have taken place, usually in the absence of the author, in the past. In attempting to repossess the empirical constituents of the occurred...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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