Autobiography and imagination vs Inscribed Identities: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Autobiography and imagination Autobiography and imagination John Pilling · 1981 178 pages · ≈ 3 h 18 m · Moderate

This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The…

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Cover of Inscribed Identities Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 232 pages · ≈ 4 h 18 m · Challenging

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that…

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Autobiography and imaginationInscribed Identities
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