The urge to autobiography reveals itself every day, in the stories
we tell about ourselves. Literary autobiography is the most highly
developed form of this universal activity of self-promotion, a kind
of writing practised in the west over many centuries. In this major
study of the western tradition, John Sturrock analyses the means by
which more than twenty of the greatest literary autobiographers
have gone about their task. The book concentrates on the productive
tension between the writer's will to singularity and the
autobiographical act itself, which restores by conventional and
rhetorical means the harmony between the writer and a community of
readers. By attending closely and sceptically to the truth-claims
made by autobiographers from Augustine through Rousseau and Darwin
to Sartre and Michel Leiris, Sturrock establishes some of the deep,
hidden continuities of autobiographical writing, and shows how
artful and self-conscious this supposedly most sincere of literary
genres can be.
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