Truth in Fiction

Lee Berman · 08 Jan 2011, 07:37 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 02:37:00 -0500
Subject: (urth) Truth in Fiction
Message-ID: <SNT123-W360F5BACD46BF5E3CEFE8CCF0C0 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wilson- I would be interested to know if you've read Margaret Atwood's "Death by Landscape"? 
>It seems to be to be a deliberately answerless and unanswerable mystery story, for or by anyone.

I am not familiar. I can tell you that I am not particularly a fan of absurdist or existential
literature. I generally like there to be some answer or conclusion to a story. But I don't think
I am alone in rejecting the opinion of people who assume they have the authority to tell me the proper
way to appreciate a piece of artwork.

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