| 3 | What Is Real?显示文摘Whenever people get an opportunity to ask me questions about my writing,I can be sure that some of the questions asked will be these:“Do you write about real people?”“Did those things really happen?”“When you write about a small town,are you really writing about Wingham?”(Wingham is the small town in Ontario where I was born and grew up,and it has often been assumed,by people who should know better,that I have simply “fictionalized” this place in my work.Indeed,the local newspaper has taken me to task for making it the “butt of a soured and cruel introspection.”)The usual thing,for writers,is to regard these either as very naive questions,asked by people who really don’t understand the difference between autobiography and fiction,who can’t recognize the device of the first-person narrator,or else as catch-you-out questions posed by journalists who hope to stir up exactly the sort of dreary(and to outsiders,slightly comic)indignation voiced by my hometown paper.Writers answer such questions patiently or crossly according to temperament and the mood they’re in.They say,no,you must understand,my characters are composites;no,those things didn’t happen the way I wrote about them;no,of course not,that isn’t Wingham(or whatever other place it may be that has had the queer unsought-after distinction of hatching a writer). | A.Munro | 2006 | 山东师范大学外国语学院学报(基础英语教育)2006，8，4： | 0 |
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