French Autobiography: Devices and Desires - Rousseau to Perec - Hardback - 1993

Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and people.
Year of publication: 1993
Pagination: 364 pages, line illustrations
Format: Hardback