Fictions in autobiography: studies in the art of self-invention
Auteur :
Eakin, Paul John
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691631530
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 cm
Poids :
482 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive.