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The reverberations from the contours of this complex, intense story are mighty, intertwining the power of creating fictions with the lure of living them, the failures of family life with the urgent desire for belonging, the frustration of a marginal existence and the yearning for a place in the world, the connection of identity and memory.
In "Tambours sur la Digue," when the characters who have been acting like puppets all through the play are suddenly transformed into real puppets, the audience's suspension of disbelief is jolted into a state of hyper-awareness that may lead spectators to reflect on the necessity of creating fictions to evoke the memory of real events.
It is hard now to avoid the thought that he should have gone back to Paris and spent the rest of his life creating fictions in a peaceful environment, following events as they unfolded by reading about them in the Herald Tribune.
It remains the most complete Marxist attempt to situate the global crisis in the context of the irresolvable tensions of a system based on "self-expanding money": "The troubles that have beset the world this last 30 years," Harvey writes, "signal that a limit is looming to continuous capital accumulation that cannot be transcended except by creating fictions that cannot last".
Many of his favourite novelists – Sterne, Diderot, Broch, Musil, Gombrowicz – really belong to that tributary of ironic, equivocal writing in which the authors are so conscious of the contradictions, pitfalls and contrivances inherent in the act of creating fictions that their books themselves become, on one level, parodies or at least self-interrogations.
According to film theorist Todd McGowan, these "created realities" also reveal the ethical and political importance of creating fictions and falsehoods.
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