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Old September 13, 2024, 01:03 AM
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Tiene escasa cabida en un libro sobre escritores

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La frase en cuestión es del libro Tinta invisible de Javier Peña.

Pero dejemos a un lado la mentira social, que tiene escasa cabida en un libro sobre escritores. Hablemos de la mentira fabuladora, la gran mentira, aquella inherente al escritor. Nadie incapaz de mentir a lo grande puede escribir una novela. Hemingway dijo que los autores de ficción no son más que unos supermentirosos que, si saben lo suficiente y son disciplinados, pueden hacer sonar sus mentiras incluso más reales que la verdad. Martha Gellhorn, que estuvo casada con Hemingway, decía que lo que en un escritor es imaginación en cualquier otra persona se considera mentir. Ahí, decía Gellhorn, es donde entra la genialidad.

Does the highlighted phrase mean there is no place for the social lie in a book about writers?

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I think it means that it's not worth talking about it, since it has little interest for the main topic, which is how writers come up with stories they haven't lived or heard before.
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Old September 13, 2024, 02:23 PM
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