Literary Autobiography
Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations
Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 5 December 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783032004109
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XV, 258 p. 1 illus. 700
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Long description:
Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal ‘literariness’ through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto)biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists – J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård – this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life writing, analysing the related ethical and aesthetic implications of fictionality. More widely, it discusses the current popularity, prevalence of and public appetite for life writing, mapping out the reception and ambiguous position of literary autobiography within the literary marketplace and its adjoining bodies of criticism.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Aesthetics and Ethics in Autobiography.- Chapter 3: Memory, Sincerity, and the Writing Life.- Chapter 4: The Novelist and Late Style.- Chapter 5: This Age of Autobiography.
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