![]() ![]() Graham Swift's Waterland (1983), a novel cast in the form of a fictional autobiography, has much to tell us about the fate, even the possibility, of autobiography in the late twentieth century. ![]() Landow, Professor of English and Art HistoryĬhildren to whom, throughout history, stories have been told, chiefly but not always at bedtime, in order to quell restless thoughts whose need of stories is matched only by the need adults have of children to tell stories to, of receptacles for their stock of fairy-tales, of listening ears on which to unload, bequeath those most unbelievable yet haunting of fairy-tales, their own lives. History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland History, His Story, and Stories in Graham Swift's Waterland George P. ![]()
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