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Should people be allowed to pass off blatant works of fiction as factual?

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>> No.10155605

>>10155597
>Should people be allowed to pass off blatant works of fiction as factual?
no.

>> No.10155610

>>10155597
butthurt commie detected.

>> No.10155612

>>10155597
his work is fiction though.

??

>> No.10155617

Upset he disproved communism?

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>>10155610
>tfw the Gulag Archipelago was completely fictitious but it shouldn't have been

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>>10155597
yep

>> No.10155656

I don't even feel like googling a picture of Anne Frank's diary so just use your imagination.

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>>10155597
He wrote nonfiction too.

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>> No.10155683

A. what's the deal with people saying this book isn't factual?

B. even if it isn't, so what? Most modern non fiction writers regular just write up fiction and pass it off as nonfiction, Ben Mezrich being the number one offender.

>> No.10156042

>what is Night

>> No.10156090

>>10156042
One of the many jews who have been caught lying about the holocaust.

http://www.unz.com/acockburn/truth-and-fiction-in-elie-wiesels-night/