Ballard (pronounced Buh-LARD), whether there was or is a Dorothy, or how she or her family might feel about this revelation. It is beside the point to wonder whether such a thing actually happened to J. Thus, in "The Kindness of Women," a fascinating sequel to "The Empire of the Sun," when the protagonist, Jim, comes home from Spain, where he has just buried Miriam, his young wife, and makes love with Dorothy, Miriam's sister, Men and women ought to show one another to characters in fiction - even autobiographical fiction - there is no such obligation, and we must respond esthetically, with higher and harsher standards. To people we encounter in biographies or autobiographies, we respond ethically, with at least a minimum of that tolerance and sympathy all Serious consequences, for the reader is required to bring a different set of standards to bear. To the claim that "this is fiction," there are further, more
Such boldness, though, soon collapses, giving way to a curious coyness, because these intimate scenes may have been conflated, altered or utterly concocted. Utobiographical fiction is a paradoxical business in which a writer, boldly confessional, may offer readers accounts of disturbing or even shockingĪctions.
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