Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: If an autobiography is to be even minimally readable, the autobiographer must step in and subdue what you could call memory's autism, its passion for the tedious.He must not be afraid to invent.Above all he must invent himself.Like Rousseau, who wrote (at the beginning of his novelistic Confessions) that "I am not made like anyone I have ever been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence," he must sustain, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, the illusion of his preternatural extraordinariness.
Source: Theory & Event
Author: Thomas L. Dumm
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4387618474