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In the novel's preface, Chabon writes, "I have stuck to facts except where facts refused to conform with memory, narrative purpose, or the truth as I prefer to understand it".
Memory, narrative, and identity Personal photos help to create memories about where people have been and what they did.
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Gifts fit into Christmas because memory and narrative are their medium, as well as caring.
Such musings are interspersed with tedious speculation on the interaction of memory and narrative.
There and here, one feels him exploring what role memory and narrative might play in salvaging meaning from a life.
The medium of memory is narrative, and the best writers on the topic can mimic its reconstructive processes.
But as fragments of memory and narrative flicker about the room, the disorientation it evokes seems to suggest one thing: memory is fallible.
This, enabled by the evolution of language, makes possible autobiographical memory – the narrative of our lives that we humans all possess and which is the basis for consciousness.
Good and evil deeds might be texts, for instance; so might history and faith, memory and narrative, word and image, language and metaphor.
I have a much smaller window of time to work with, plus I suffer from I.F.B.S. (I Forget Books Syndrome), so perhaps it's only fitting that I've been reading, in dribs and drabs, Vladimir Nabokov's "Pnin", which explores the tragicomic complexities of time, memory, and narrative.
Instead, he wanted the ending to be "a poetic mixture of dream and memory and narrative resolution".
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