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Louis-Ferdinand Céline'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 Céline—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 Céline'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 Céline shows in the book.
B
refuse to acknowledge that Céline drew on real-world material when writing Journey to the End of the Night.
C
overemphasize the extent to which Céline took inspiration from earlier writers.
D