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Sat 07 Jul 2009Travellers' tall tales
MAGAN'S WORLD:HOW DO YOU deal with the fictionalisation that is sneaking into travel literature? I’m hoping I’ll have come up with an answer by the time I begin a travel-writing workshop at West Cork Literary Festival on Monday.
Since the time of Marco Polo travel writers have been accused of blurring the line between fact and fiction. I certainly have been guilty of it in my books. To form a single narrative from the dissociated strands of a journey requires a certain degree of manipulation, otherwise the book would just be endless airport delays, hotel check-in mix-ups and tiresome squabbles on bus journeys.
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