Title: Writing it up, writing it down
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2010, vol. 36, iss. 2, pp. [113]-122
Extent
[113]-122
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/105075
Type: Article
Language
English
License: Not specified license
Abstract(s)
The current trend in autobiography that is making ours an age of memoir has long historical roots. The trend presents a potential difficulty for contemporary literature as writers increasingly turn from the writing of fiction to the writing of memoir; we risk, as Milan Kundera puts it, "an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding" in this proliferation of voices competing for a limited audience of readers. This essay presents no solutions to that potentiality but it does explore some of the motives for autobiography.
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References
[1] Kundera, Milan The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. 1978. Trans. Michael Henry Heim. New York: Penguin, 1981.