"Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for…
Graham Swift’s Waterland, narrated by history teacher Tom Crick, repeatedly questions how histories are constructed to explain events and resist emptiness. That narrative…
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"Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen ? I present to you History, the fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama." Which postmodern novel thus subverts the truth claims of traditional historiography ?
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Graham Swift’s Waterland, narrated by history teacher Tom Crick, repeatedly questions how histories are constructed to explain events and resist emptiness. That narrative setting fits this reflection on History as fabrication. The other listed novels also revisit the past, but this quoted voice belongs to Waterland.
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