Melton Constable
W.R. Mead, 22 May 1986
The past is a foreign country
by David Lowenthal.
Cambridge, 489 pp., £27.50, November 1985,0 521 22415 2 Show More
by David Lowenthal.
Cambridge, 489 pp., £27.50, November 1985,
“... the individual level, autobiographical confession provides generous evidence. The Swedish author Eyvind Johnson confessed to inexact, falsified, poeticised ‘memories of memories’ when he wrote about his youth. A generation later, Harold Pinter, strolling down Memory Lane, identified a past ‘you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you ... ”