Faction

Japanese: faction
Faction

...American author T. Capote wrote In Cold Blood (1966) based on an actual murder case involving a family of four, and interviewed the murderer and other people involved in the case, establishing the term "non-fiction novel." Also, A. Haley called his work Roots (1976), which is about his search for his ancestors, a "faction" (a combination of fact and fiction). As these words suggest, the boundary between fiction and non-fiction is not clear, and non-fiction does not reproduce facts that have a definite and definite meaning. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "faction" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカの作家T.カポーティは,実際に起きた一家4人皆殺し事件を,犯人をはじめ事件の関係者からのインタビューをもとに《冷血》(1966)に仕立て,〈ノンフィクション・ノベルnonfiction novel〉の語を定着させた。また,A.ヘーリーは自分の祖先を探し求めた作品《ルーツ》(1976)を〈ファクションfaction〉(factとfictionの合成語)と呼んだ。これらの言葉が示唆するように,フィクションとノンフィクションとの境界は明瞭ではなく,ノンフィクションは一義的で確実な意味をもつ事実をそのまま再現するものではない。…

※「faction」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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