Marco Roth Quotes About Memoir

• Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now about people's relationships with books. Like anything else, these can be good or bad. The genre doesn't make it good or bad, it's the execution.

  Marco Roth

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.

  Marco Roth

  Memories, Father, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.

  Marco Roth

  Important, Roles, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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