Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Honors Project: Thesis Statement V.1

Ken Kesey said, "Some things can't be true even if they happened." In considering this statement, (notes from) The Tourist would be a consideration that if accounts of history—even by the people involved in particular events—are subjected to the same rubrics with which literature is critiqued, history takes on a questionable veracity similar to that told by an unreliable narrator. Specifically, The Tourist would present the quest for understanding the Siege of Sarajevo (1992-95) and its confusing array of participants as analogous to the various methods with which we consider meaning in a given work of literature.

"Some things can't be true even if they happened."
To paraphrase Ralph J. Gleason:
Sarajevo was like that.


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