Vargas Llosa's interesting take on the diaries is that they are indeed part fictional, but that the fabrication was by Casement himself, as he documented fantasy encounters he had not dared to actualise (as well as ones he did).
Roland Haas, whose memoir "Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin" was thought by some to be a fabrication, died Saturday after accidentally shooting himself with a handgun.
He was, instead, in a mental ward, suffering from a kind of nervous disorder — and then again it was an invention, "a colossal fabrication," as he put it, to get himself out of the Army.
Irving, apparently intoxicated by the occult fabrication of talent and identity, went on himself to be a faker, scamming the American publishing world with what purported to be Howard Hughes's diaries.
After Rusbridger took over, and in the final stages of a libel trial, a Guardian reporter unearthed hotel bills that proved Aitken had concocted an elaborate series of fabrications; he had perjured himself, and was sent to jail.
(He had taught himself welding by then, as well as metal fabrication).
He ended up becoming a sculptor himself and learned a lot about large-scale fabrication while working as a studio manager, first for Mr. Otterness and then for Mr. di Suvero.
Morgan admitted that the story he had told about an American friend being killed by Batista was a fabrication — a sleight of hand that had allowed him to sneak himself into the narrative of history.
Thein Sein himself dismissed claims of military involvement in the violence as "pure fabrication", even though very real mass graves have been found.
But the lawyer maintained the photographs were not of Mubarak's transport, that the story was a fabrication, and that Mubarak's alleged views were instead adapted from recent television appearances he himself had made.
