{"product_id":"the-fiction-of-autobiography-micaela-maftei-9781623568016","title":"The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriting autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing calls into question the author's truthfulness or their authority to present as definitive their 'version' of a particular event or portion of their lives. Drawing upon a wide range of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century autobiographical writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Fiction of Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e examines key aspects of autobiography from the interrelated perspectives of author, reader, critic and scholar, to reconsider how we view this form of writing, and its relationship to the way we understand and construct identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaftei considers recent cases and texts such as Didion's \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and Frey's \u003ci\u003eA Million Little Pieces \u003c\/i\u003ealongside older texts such as Proust's \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eSpeak, Memory \u003c\/i\u003eand Stein's \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e. In part, this is to emphasise that key issues reappear and arise over decades and centuries, and that texts distanced by time can speak to each other thoughtfully and poignantly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Micaela Maftei\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1623568013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623568016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Micaela Maftei","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014004355327,"sku":"9781623568016","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4364775a-d8d3-4b8b-bf5a-470beadbfc86.jpg?v=1767746126","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fiction-of-autobiography-micaela-maftei-9781623568016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}