{"product_id":"louis-ren-des-forts-and-inner-ian-maclachlan-9781781889350","title":"Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis-Ren  des For ts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry and fragmentary prose, and culminating in the key works \u003cem\u003ePo mes de Samuel Wood\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eOstinato\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and the posthumously published \u003cem\u003ePas   pas jusqu'au dernier\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). Ian Maclachlan's study is the first to take this innovation in life-writing as its principal focus and to draw out the wider resonances of des For ts's distinctive project for the theory and practice of autobiography. Des For ts's unusual traversal of genres, formal experimentation, and sparseness of biographical detail give rise to a new mode of abstract, impersonal autobiographical writing. Echoing des For ts's own, earlier use of the term \u003cem\u003eautobiographie int rieure\u003c\/em\u003e in relation to his short-story collection \u003cem\u003eLa Chambre des enfants\u003c\/em\u003e (1960), as well as his friend Georges Bataille's idiosyncratic notion of \u003cem\u003eexp rience int rieure\u003c\/em\u003e, this novel style of life-writing is explored here under the rubric of 'inner autobiography'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Maclachlan is Professor of French Literature and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian MacLachlan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 178188935X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781889350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Ian MacLachlan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43983061778687,"sku":"9781781889350","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_705967b6-20ec-4506-94af-22787422a406.jpg?v=1683264462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/louis-ren-des-forts-and-inner-ian-maclachlan-9781781889350","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}