I just taught a class at the University of Chicago in nonfiction narrative writing this past quarter.

我在刚过去的这个学季在芝加哥大学给一个班的学生教非小说叙事文写作。

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The circumstances surrounding the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four make a haunting narrative that helps to explain the bleakness of Orwell's dystopia.

《1984》的写作过程对奥威尔来说如同炼狱，书中反乌托邦的氛围阴郁，灵感或许来源于现实中的周边环境。

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What have you learned as a writer from this piece? Are there any narrative techniques that you are working with (or would like to work with) in your own writing?

作为一个作者，你从里面学得了什么？有没有哪些叙事技巧是你在自己作品里使用的(或是会想使用的)？

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In spite of some of her novels being banned at the time by South Africa's white-only government, the Nobel laureate insists that any author who tries to push a message on a reader ahead of narrative is in danger at best of producing bad writing, and at worst of lapsing into propaganda.

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