"Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? I present to you History, the fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama."
Which postmodern novel thus subverts the truth claims of traditional historiography?
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A.S. Byatt's Possession
2
Graham Swift's Waterland
3
John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman
4
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient