Autobiography as Autrebiography: the Fictionalisation of the Self in J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood remains a fundamentally ambivalent work, generically speaking. The author seems unwilling to choose between autobiography and fiction. Whatever truth is attained may, in the last resort, be best expressed as a fiction of the truth.

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Auteur principal: Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila
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Langue:Anglais
Publié: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
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