False Identities of Self-Proposed Heroes
False Identities of Self-Proposed Heroes

Summary/Abstract: Many times memory assumes fictitious developments. In this way, reality becomes imagination or, better said, hypothesis. As we never get to know reality in all its aspects, we are forced to make suppositions. In Peter Ackroyd’s novel The Fall of Troy, history is recreated in order to support the myth. Because the myth has energy and charisma, it incentivises the soul of a nation. In Julian Barnes’s The History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and Flaubert’s Parrot imagination is used to reconsider mentalities, religions and characters. In both novels, imagination works as a deconstructionist factor. By creating a simulacrum of reality, we can better understand the nature of our beliefs and attitudes. The conclusion would be that the only useful reality resides in the realm of imagination.

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