Sunday, March 11, 2007

Izabela Szmigielska Blog #1

When writing a memoir it is imperative that a writer writes only the truth and a whole truth. If he does not writes the truth this brings his whole life and character into question, because the things we thought we knew and felt about him were manufactured by his untruth stories. When admitting years later that he wrote about people he never meet not only he brought his life into question but the life of people that he wrote about. Now we wonder which people had he met which people had he not and which stories is truth and which are not truth. Now we have to discount all the stories he has written and all the people he talks about because we don’t know which parts he made up. For this reasons I feel memoirs should be only the truth without any lies or untruths from the author.

1 comment:

pardeep said...

Izabela,
I really liked your blog. Your point about how the characters are brought into question is a really good point, and I also agree with it. In addition, your point about his work is brought into question. If a writer lies, no one knows what was real and what was fake. Overall, I really liked your points. Keep up the good work!
Pardeep Singh