A serious and independent contribution to the literature of autobiography.
– John Sturrock French Studies Clearly a landmark study. It seems certain to provoke a great deal of productive debate among those concerned with any of the many issues it raises.
– Comparative Literature
The literary self-portrait, often considered to be an ill- formed autobiography, is receiving more attention as a result of the current obsession with personal narrative, but little progress has been made toward an understanding of its specific features. With Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait, Michel Beaujour reveals the hidden ambitions of this genre. From St. Augustine to Montaigne, from Nietzsche to Malraux, Leiris and Barthes, individual self-portraits are analyzed jointly with the enduring cultural matrix from which self-portrayal derives its disconcerting non-narrative structure, and many of its recurrent topics.
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MICHEL BEAUJOUR is Professor of French at New York University.
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