He writes: "Given that his work has been declared by experts … to be undeserving of the name of history and to be characterised by deliberate falsification of material, it is not a question of alternative interpretations of history or of expressions of simple opinion, but of a very specific genre of literature, quite distinct from history.
The novel became a French bestseller, but Lanzmann attacked it as "a falsification of history and of its protagonists".
The novel became a French bestseller, but Lanzmann attacked it as "a falsification of history and of its protagonists".
Poetry was somehow more real, less of a performance, than life, which required the falsification of desire or (and it was the same thing) its swift channelling into normative forms, unavailable to Merrill as to every openly gay person of the time: marriage, a conventional career, children.
It means falsification of statistics to meet the diktats of unaccountable power.
In a statement on his blog on Monday (in Russian) he denounced Primorye's "brazen falsification of the election results", calling it "an insult not just to the region's residents, but to the whole country".
Khaled Meshaal of Hamas described the synagogue's opening as "a declaration of war" and called it a "falsification of history and Jerusalem's religious and historic monuments".
It's a falsification of credibility.
His office handles cases involving falsification of data, fabrication, and plagiarism, but it doesn't tackle authorship feuds.
But if the TOL is understood and used as a heuristic (and there seem to be many contemporary instances of this sort of use), then the value of its continued deployment is such that no mere "falsification" will get rid of it.
