What is a story? Truth or invention? (Or both?)
Susan Sontag on the ambiguity of storytelling
Conversation between writer/critic Susan Sontag and author/painter/poet John Berger.
Susan Sontag on the ambiguity of storytelling:
“We think of stories as bringing information.
"We think of stories as revealing secrets, true stories that might be told after someone’s death, because death of someone is often an occasion for telling stories about that person’s life and maybe some truth comes out that wasn’t discussed or generally shared before that person was gone.
"But we also think of stories as “that’s only a story”, or “don’t tell me stories” meaning don’t tell me lies.
"At the very centre of the whole enterprise of storytelling there is the fact that storytelling is an activity that faces in two directions. One the one hand it’s connected with an idea of truth. On the other hand it’s connected with an idea of invention, imagination, lies, something that can’t happen, it’s connected with fantasy.
[Watch the full conversation here]
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