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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 that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autob
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- Author
- Paul John Eakin
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691066400
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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