In article <3C5ED07B.40408@noneofyourbusiness.com>,
Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:
J.R.R. Tolkien, in his introduction (or was it the preface?) to Lord of
the Rings attacked exactly the same point - he hated allegory as a
genre, and LOTR was consciously not an allegory, nor was it a
fictionalization of the Second World War, though he did acknowledge that
his expericences in the war could have colored his writing.
What he acknowledged was that his experiences in the _First_ World War
could have colored his writing.