Sandor Jaszberenyi’s ‘The Devil is a Black Dog’ fires on reporters

Books , Criticism , War Nov 21, 2015 No Comments

At what point should a journalist transmute first-hand experience into fiction? Where does one draw the line between what can be reported as fact and what should probably be reported some other way, even if one has seen it with one’s own eyes, heard it with one’s own ears?

Sandor Jaszberenyi’s The Devil is a Black Dog brings these questions to the fore without ever stating them explicitly. Many of the stories here have the quality of anecdotes that Jaszberenyi, a Hungarian who has worked as a war correspondent in the Middle East and ­Africa, was told second or third-hand. Unable to corroborate them independently, one feels, he has instead chosen to relate them—in simple yet affecting prose—under the guise of ­fiction. He has said that the book was an attempt to find meaning in the death and suffering he has seen across the course of his career. Turning to fiction, then, was both a moral ­response and a liberating one.

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Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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