Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection
of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the
relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should
biographies be written in the style and form of novels? How to
balance the life and the work? How much literary criticism can a
biography absorb into its narrative? Rollyson proposes a number of
apologias for biography-including the thought that in the right
hands the literary biography is a continuation not only of the
writer's work and life. In such instances there seems to be a
symbiosis between biographer and subject. In other cases,
biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He
rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for
biography because they are not men and women of action. That
literary biography is a kind of strip mining, a pathography laying
bare the subject's life to no good purpose is another canard this
book demolishes. overstatement and excessive length, the failure of
biographers to build upon their predecessors' work (Rollyson
invents a term-biographology-in order to discuss the biographical
tradition).
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