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“This Is True”: Between the Memory and History of Tim O’Brien’s Trauma
"Hey, you're looking better," he said. "No doubt about it. All you needed was time-some mental R&R."
Then he said, "Man, I'm sorry."
Then later he said, "Why not talk about it?"
Then he said, "Come on, man, talk."
He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star- shaped hole.
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, pg. 80
Vietnam War veterans may have left the country’s dark jungles, but traces of it are left in the dark recesses of their memories. For Tim O’Brien this darkness obscures many elements of who he is as an author. In balancing the history of his past and the memory he is left with, O’Brien’s darkness swallows scholar Pierre Nora’s conceptions of past and history and spits them out in the form of a slippery memory-history hybrid that proves hard to handle for audiences seeking to place it in the literary binary of fiction and nonfiction. O’Brien’s hybrid brings readers into a whole new environment of collective and prosthetic memory by first bringing out of him a bridge from the dark jun
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Critical Insights: Tim O'Brien
Editor: Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery
February 2015
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This collection brings together a selection of recent representative critical essays on O’Brien from a variety of perspectives. After opening with several short introductory essays, the volume moves on to consider O’Brien’s semi-autobiographical coverage of his experience in Vietnam and discusses O’Brien’s most famous work, The Things They Carried, in addition to several of his other works.
This title highlights Tim O'Brien's stature as one of the most important living American authors that seems to grow with each passing year. Much of O'Brien's work deals with American participation in the Vietnam War, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is usually considered the key writer about that crucial chapter in U.S. history. His books are almost always at least as interesting for how they are written as for what they are written about.
The present volume offers a comprehensive overview of O’Brien’s whole career. It includes essays by many senior scholars of O’Brien’s works.
1.Career, Life, and Influence
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