Originally published in 1981. 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 author
argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft,
coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the
formalism of language. In each case the writer stamps his
personality on the work by mean of a distinctive verbal surface
whose discipline enables him to evade narrow egotism and forces
both reader and writer into an act of collaboration and
corroboration. Written at a time when criticism was turning to
focus on the relation between the reader and the text, this study
added a provocative dimension to the debate and is still an
important read today.
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