Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin

Nalbantian, S.

'A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in their wake - Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterised by a common aesthetics. She discovers in these writings a threshold of artistic transformation beyond the identification of biographical authenticity.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1994-07-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780312172893

DOI: 10.1057/978-0-230-37365-5

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 223