Diary

Christine Brooke-Rose

A familiar notion is particularly well-expressed in Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame. The notion is that of history as itself a fiction; the expression is varied. ‘All stories,’ he says as intruding author, ‘are haunted by the ghosts of the stories they might have been.’ And elsewhere:

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Vol. 12 No. 9 · 10 May 1990 » » Diary (print version)
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