At Three Percent's Read This Next, I found Emmanuel Carrère, previously mentioned in this blog, explaining what a chronicle is — except that, lacking the term, he calls it a non-fiction novel, a la Truman Capote:
I write what Truman Capote called “non-fiction novels” and often, as you say, deeply personal non-fiction novels, which means I use all the tools and the tricks of fiction-writing, but on documentary material. I have nothing ideological against fiction, I enjoy reading fiction and maybe I shall write it again in the future, but right now, I feel at home in this real, a huge and partly unexplored continent of literature.
I write what Truman Capote called “non-fiction novels” and often, as you say, deeply personal non-fiction novels, which means I use all the tools and the tricks of fiction-writing, but on documentary material. I have nothing ideological against fiction, I enjoy reading fiction and maybe I shall write it again in the future, but right now, I feel at home in this real, a huge and partly unexplored continent of literature.
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