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Vanitas and the Life of the Author : In Chinese Postman, Brian Castro Transforms Fiction into a Mechanism of Truth, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth , single work review
— Review of Chinese Postman Brian Castro , 2024 single work novel ;

'There was a point in the 1990s where it became fashionable to emphasise that autobiography was fiction. This proposition sprang up to complement an earlier stricture that emerged with the New Criticism of the mid-20th century – namely, that the author of a work of fiction was never the narrator. So, autobiography was always fiction and fiction was never autobiography.' (Introduction)
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