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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fiction of memory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a constructed or imagined recollection that may not accurately reflect reality.
Example: "As she recounted her childhood, it became clear that what she was sharing was more a fiction of memory than an actual account of events."
Alternatives: "a fabrication of memory" or "an illusion of memory".
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IS: Well, a fiction of memory is when I'm describing the more remote past.
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One of your subtitles is "Fictions of memory".
A fiction writer's memory is an especially imperfect provider of detail; we can always invent a better detail than the one we remember.
Does your fiction often spring from a fragment of memory, like this one?
Mr. Ayers has called his book a work of memory, fact and fiction.
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I'm trying to remember it partly because I don't have a copy of either book to hand – if only I had them on a Kindle – but mostly because memory and fiction, and the distortions of memory in fiction, is pretty much exactly what we were talking about at the International Forum on the Novel.
"It was a special kind of mixture of fiction, memory and history," he said.
"A burden of memory".
A vessel of memory.
The dynamic, changing elements are made explainable, as fiction, by the uncertainties of memory.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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