Homer Hickam - A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techni...

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A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.

Homer Hickam

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ein Memoir ist keine Autobiographie. Es ist eine wahre Geschichte, die als Roman mit Techniken der Romanisierung erzählt wird. Der Autor darf Ereignisse komprimieren, Zeichen kombinieren, Namen ändern, die Reihenfolge der Ereignisse ändern, als würde er einen Roman schreiben. Aber es muss wahr sein.

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