nonfictive

It is, I think, the most powerful, nonfictive prose in the English language, but it's a kind of vehement satire upon visionary projectors as it were, like myself, and so I figure it is a good tonic and corrective for me.

A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010

The issue here is not the accuracy of Tolstoy’s description — it seems not that far off from nonfictive accounts — but its selectivity: other things that could be said of the man are not said.

Notes on the History of Fiction 2006

The issue here is not the accuracy of Tolstoy’s description — it seems not that far off from nonfictive accounts — but its selectivity: other things that could be said of the man are not said.

Notes on the History of Fiction 2006