Saturday, March 20, 2010

Question - 454

Today's question is courtesy Rajesh K. Connect these works (not an exhaustive list).

Answer: The novels are Andromeda Strain, Gulliver's travels, Don Quixote and the Scarlet letter. They all employ a literary technique called the False document. By quoting extensively from sources that appear to be factual but in fact are not, such novels invite the reader to suspend his/her disbelief more so than usual. Aparna and Rajesh were the only ones to get it. Great job.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

All 4 works of fiction incorporated a technique called "false document" wherein by introducing documents that seem authentic, readers are forced to think of it as real or factual and not fiction

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

All the stories/novels were written inspired on real people.Nearly everyone involved had moments of great brilliance, and moments of unaccountable stupidity.
krithi

rajesh said...

False documents

matti tapaninen said...

After hours of serious pondering I found out that there are hotels named after Andromeda, Gulliver, Cervantes and Scarlet Letter. But I'm pretty sure you are not looking for this - so I rest my hopeless case.