It probably is at least in part, but mainly it is probably intended to be fiction or fictionalized biography.

最少一部分是，可是结果大相径庭,大篇都是虚构或文学小说化了的自传。

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Ultimately, we reach the conclusion that if we're to think of literature, we're to think of something that is made up: not something that is based on something but something that is made up.

最终，我们得到结论，如果我们要想到文学，我们就得想到虚构的一些事情,不是基于其它事情上的事情，而是虚构的一些事情。

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All of Iser's work is grounded in the notion of literature as fiction.

伊瑟尔的所有作品持有文学即虚构的概念。

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Literature knows itself to be fictive.

文学意识到自己是虚构的。

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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