Fictionalization
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Fictionalization or dramatization is to treat as or make into fiction. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "based on a true story."
To fictionalize is to retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods or to convert (adaptation) something into a novel or other dramatic work.
Poe said in 1840: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."
Fictionalization should not be confused with appeals to truth in fiction, see false document. An early example of this is True History, a travel tale by Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to the Moon, written in the second century CE.
See also
- All persons fictitious disclaimer
- Docufiction
- Dramatic license
- Dubious anecdotes: Suetonius, Brantome and Tallemant
- Fake memoir
- False document
- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Histories (history of the novel)
- List of films based on actual events
- Nonfiction novel, also called faction
- Pseudohistory
- Reality
- Roman à clef
- Semidocumentary
- Stranger than fiction
- The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent., first used in Dragnet.
- Truth
- Truth is stranger than fiction
- True crime
- Unreliable narrator
- Verisimilitude
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