Article Title：Reading 'Dutch':: A review in three parts
Abstract：
A meditation on Dutch by Edmund Morris, the controversial memoir-biography of Ronald Reagan, that uses some of the experimental techniques that appear in the book. The first part is the description of a scene, in screenplay form, in which I have a conversation with a friend about the book; the second, a fictional 'memoir' by an invented acquaintance of Edmund Morris; and the third, a fictional interview with the author. In the last part, I find the experiments used in the book effective in giving an intimate perspective of the book's subject, but think it problematic that a book that purports to be a biography fails to provide that reader a way of distinguishing fact from fiction. A solution might have been for Morris to declare a whole new genre of writing - the factitional narrative.
Keywords: Dutch; Edmund Morris; Ronald Reagan; memoir; biography; experimental history; factitional writing
DOI: 10.1080/136425200457074
Source：RETHINKING HISTORY
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