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“This Is True”: Between the Memory and History of Tim O’Brien’s Trauma
"Hey, you're looking better," he said. "No doubt about it. All you needed was time-some mental R&R."
Then he said, "Man, I'm sorry."
Then later he said, "Why not talk about it?"
Then he said, "Come on, man, talk."
He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star- shaped hole.
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, pg. 80
Vietnam War veterans may have left the country’s dark jungles, but traces of it are left in the dark recesses of their memories. For Tim O’Brien this darkness obscures many elements of who he is as an author. In balancing the history of his past and the memory he is left with, O’Brien’s darkness swallows scholar Pierre Nora’s conceptions of past and history and spits them out in the form of a slippery memory-history hybrid that proves hard to handle for audiences seeking to place it in the literary binary of fiction and nonfiction. O’Brien’s hybrid brings readers into a whole new environment of collective and prosthetic memory by first bringing out of him a bridge from the dark jun
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Tim O'Brien
Who is he?
Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam war veteran who has made a career out of writing about his experiences, whether that be through nonfiction or fiction. He has received numerous awards for his writing, and his book The Things They Carried was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. His work has inspired countless authors and readers, and has helped many veterans understand and relate their experiences.
Biography:
Tim O’Brien was born and raised in Minnesota. He had a successful--and by all accounts, enjoyable--childhood; he spent much of his time reading Mark Twain. In 1968, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Quickly following his graduation, he was drafted and served a tour of duty in Vietnam between the years 1969 and 1970. He was sent home after being injured by shrapnel from a grenade, receiving a purple heart for his bravery. His experiences in the war fueled his fervor for writing and the rest is history.
Above: Picture created by Helena Gealach that is supposed to depict O'Brien's mentality before and after the war.
Career:
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