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Dai Sijie's 2000 novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress contains elements drawn from Sijie's own life-there are many parallels between the experiences of the novel's unnamed narrator and those of Sijie-and as a result Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is regularly described as an autobiographical novel. This characterization can be useful, but it also presents drawbacks in terms of how the work is perceived, given the high value placed on creativity and imagination in artistic endeavors. Readers who take this characterization to mean that Sijie merely fictionalized actual events may conclude that _____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the real-world counterparts of other characters in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress are hard to identify.
A
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is not as worthy of praise as it might have been if it had no basis in fact.
B
critics disagree about whether Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress shows greater originality than works without autobiographical elements.
C
Sijie should not have claimed that Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is based on real events.
D