Abstract
When the question is asked: What is fiction? Literary scholars tend to answer by theorizing on the critical ideas that writers use to explain the nature of their work in relation to fiction and non-fiction. In my experience as a writer, I have spent more than thirty five years grappling with the notion of fiction. I have learnt to see fiction as a metaphor for autobiographical narration and can confidently say that, fiction is the veil by which we mask the truth. The truth is too heavy a burden to bear, so storytellers learnt, since antiquity, to mask the truth by clothing it within the garments of metaphor, allegory, satire, fables, fantasy, fairytales, parables, comedy and the theatre of tragedy. As a writer I am yet to live up to my expectations of my dreams of what I know I am capable of achieving. Despite that, I have kept my vow to write for many years, penning plays, volumes of journals, poems, essays, short-stories, novels, and treatises, self-publishing and still striving for recognition and the respect of my peers. I know I am a literary maverick, exiled within my fictional world of literary anonymity, travelling and living around the world in search of a place to call home.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | African Writers |
| Place of Publication | Online |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |