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fictionalise

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They asked me to consider fictionalising Kubrick, and get back to them.But how do you fictionalise a fictionaliser who insists on being fictionalised?

On these grounds, any attempt to fictionalise Adolf Hitler should be anathema, yet he is the oblique subject of Norman Mailer's latest novel, his first in a decade.How does America's foremost literary lion solve a problem like Adolf?

It might not be strictly inevitable, if you fictionalise a famous person's life on film, that you end up making a hagiography.

First, Drury has a Faustian devil to fictionalise for his current work in progress.

The resulting narrative examines the way we fictionalise our lives by shaping events and recasting people as characters in dramas of our own making.

And Ballard said something similar – that you fictionalise to reach the truth".

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But getting to such upside-down conclusions requires more than that: it requires fictionalising and even lying.

There is nothing wrong with fictionalising historical figures and events.

It is fictionalised, though.

The author Martin Walser, the butt of many a savage slating, even wrote a novel, "Death of a Critic", which lovingly recounted the murder of a lightly fictionalised Mr Reich-Ranicki.

They also want to lay a 300-mile pipeline to bring water from Nevada's sparsely populated north to Las Vegas, a controversial plan some compare to Los Angeles's removal of water from the Owens Valley 100 years ago (as fictionalised in Roman Polanski's "Chinatown").Unhappily for Nevada and Arizona, California's problems are also theirs.

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