Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy and ambition, Lauren Slater developed seizures, auras, neurological disturbances--and an ability to lie. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever. · This question is at the heart of Lauren Slater’s strange but mesmerizing book, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir. If you take this book at face value, you’d think that at the age of 10 Slater. · Overview. In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. Mixing memoir with mendacity, Slater examines memories of her youth, when after being diagnosed with a strange illness she developed seizures and Brand: Random House Publishing Group.
A National Magazine Award nominee, Lauren Slater has a masters degree in psychology from Harvard University and a doctorate from Boston University. Her work was chosen for the Best American Essays/Most Notable Essays volumes of , , , , and Her previous book, Lying, was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the top ten nonfiction books of Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , X. Kierkegaard says, 'The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are most honest when we are lost.' Enter that lostness with me. Live in the place I am, where the view is murky, where the connecting bridges and orienting maps have been surgically stripped away." ― Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir.
In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater attempts to create a new kind of truth called metaphorical truth: emotional truth explained using metaphors instead of facts. She confuses fact and fiction even though it is a memoir and thus creates a convoluted tale. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy and ambition, Lauren Slater developed seizures, auras, neurological disturbances--and an ability to lie. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tell--or to know--the facts about a self, a human being, a life. "The neural mechanism that undergirds the lie is the same neural mechanism that helps us make narrative. Thus all stories are at least physiologically linked to deception" (). This undermining of the reader's security has proven controversial. But one must remember that the book's subtitle is "a metaphorical memoir.".
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