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| Friday, May 8, 2009 3:42PM | | | | Lies like Truth | Tags: Jan Kjaerstad, Horacio Catellanos Moya, Roxana Robinson, Marlon James, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Jesus
| | | | The program was billed as a discussion of where truth lies in fiction but quickly turned into darkness. Jan Kjaerstad, master of Theological Studies at the University of Oslo, said that fiction can get to a deeper level, a complexity that is impossible in nonfiction. The best part of a novel is what you can’t express in words. Psychology, sociology can go only so far; beyond that is darkness. Fiction writers try to shine a faint light into the darkness. He pointed out that Heart of Darkness was told on a ship in London, the center of civilization at that time, and the story returned there at the end. “Maybe the heart of darkness is the center of the world,” he said.
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