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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows tha
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Hardcover
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298 pages
Published
July 21st 1985
by Princeton University Press
(first published January 1985)
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