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A Search for America

Frederick Philip Grove

出版	Ryerson Press, 1939
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=p-OVuQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The "Author's Note" starts out by affirming that ASA has been "written in 1893-1894" [which makes the likely time of composition 1913/14, Grove's first year in Canada]. Making an oblique reference to Goethe's famous autobiography, "Dichtung & Wahrheit", he goes on: "I have often been asked whether the story ... is fact or fiction." In a mss draft of this preface, this reference is explicit. He then asserts "that every event in the story was lived through."--Follow fairly convoluted arguments why "facts" need to become "art" in "imaginative literature." Then a footnote to "Hueffer, 'Joseph Conrad'," and how Conrad's oral accounts varied. Note that Ford Maddox Ford was a neighbour's of H.G. Wells in 1905/6 when Greve & Else visited Wells from Paris-Plage. -- Finally, he justifies using a "pseudonym for [his] hero" [Phil Branden] with these words: "Well, while a pseudonym ostensibly dissociates the author from his creation, it gives him at the same time an opportunity to be even more personal than ... it would be either safe or comfortable to be were he speaking in the first person, unmasked. / F.P.G. / Simcoe, Ontario, / February, 1939."