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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night is regularly described as autobiographical. That characterization is apt-there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel's protagonist, Ferdinand Bardamu, and those of Celine-but it should not be taken to mean that every person or event depicted in Journey to the End of the Night has a real-life analogue. Much of the novel is pure invention, and readers who neglect this fact and instead focus excessively on correspondences between the novel and Celine's life can thus ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
misrepresent Journey to the End of the Night as being more widely read than it actually is.
A
fail to appreciate how much creativity Celine shows in the book.
B
refuse to acknowledge that Celine drew on real-world material when writing Journey to the End of the Night.
C
overemphasize the extent to which Celine took inspiration from earlier writers
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