Person biography
Glossary of grammatical and repertoire terms
An autobiography is when a person writes in writing or in writing. Quality: autobiography.
Many scholars consider Ippessius (398-b) as the first autobiography of Hippo's Augustine (354-430).
The term artistic biography (or pseudoautobiography) refers to novels that use the first people to recall events in their lives that actually took place.
Notable examples include David Copperfield (1850), Charles Dickens, and Salinger’s The Bed Holder (1951).
According to some critics, all autobiographies are available for several reasons. Patricia Meyer Spakts wrote, "People make themselves ...". "Teaching autobiography is to see oneself as a self-creating creature.
"To distinguish autobiographical content from memory, consider the following examples:
Etymology
From Greek "own" + "life" + "summer“
Examples of autobiographical publications
Imitation of the spectator's style by Benjamin Franklin
Harlem Langston Hughes
On the street, Emma Goldman
The ritual in Maya is Angelu’s caged bird
Turbid Ebb and Miseryal Stream by Margaret Sanger
Two ways to see the river by Mark Twain
Samples and observations of autobiological compositions"An autobiography is an obituary in a series that looks like it missed the last part.
"(Quentin Crisp, Naked Civil Servant, 1968)“
Putting life into words means the art of speaking it is dominance, because those words, even if they declare that they will not lose their confusion, save him from confusion.“
(Patricia Meyer, "Imagination": A Biography and Novel in 18th-Century England, Harvard University Press, 1976)
The opening stages of the biography of Zora Neale Hurston- “I have memories that come from a material that reminds me, like dead stones, cold stones, time and place have their say.
“So you need to know about the place and time I came in order to interpret the events and directions in my life.“
I was born in Negro Town. So I'm not the black back of the average city, I was born in Florida, Eatonville, Council, city marshal, etc ... It wasn't the first neurotic community in America, but by chains in America. was the first attempt at organized self-government.
"Eatonville is like hitting a flat swing with a rotten stick. It wasn't the city's original plan, it's nothing else ...".
(Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Lines on the Road. JB Lippincott, 1942)- “In the Black Church:“ If someone asks you where you are going, you will tell them where you are, so you are not lying, you are not revealing your secrets. "Hurston called herself the 'Queen of Niggerati.' She, too, said, 'I love myself when I laugh.' Hurston was really creative.
”(Maya Angelu, "Introduction to Ventilation Paths on the Road," HarperCollins, 1996)
Biography and facts
“All autobiographies are lies, I don’t mean to lie unconsciously, intentionally, I want to lie intentionally, no one is bad enough to tell the truth about themselves in their lifetime, his family, friends and the truth about his colleagues is not good enough to tell the truth in a document that puts pressure on him until no one survives. ”
(George Bernard Shaw, sixteen self sketch, 1898)
"A biography is the best way to tell the truth about other people."(Thomas Carlyle, Philip Guedalla and others)
Biography and Memoir
- "Autobiography is a life story: the name means that the writer should try to master all the basic elements of life, for example, the author's biography is not only about the growth and work of the author. A writer, but also family life, education, relationships, sex , as well as facts and feelings related to travel and any internal struggle, biographies are sometimes limited to dates ("Under My Skin": 1949 by Doris Lessing), but not clear on the subject.
"Memoir, on the other hand, is a life story that doesn't claim to replicate a lifetime."(Judith Barrington, Writing: The Eighth Field Press to Reality Art, 2002)
- “Unlike biographies that move in beautiful directions from birth to fame, memory narrows the lens to the habitual routine that is formed in a writer’s life, such as childhood or adolescence or in front of war or travel or public service, service or other. special cases.(William Zinsser, "Introduction," "Discovering Truth: The Art and Skill of Memoir," Mariner Books, 1998)
"Epidemic rage" for auto-biography
“The population of writers becomes brutal after fame (they make no claims), we see the wrath of the autobiography epidemic, its impact expanding and becoming more harmful than its trend. monuments. Like ‘Abduqadir’, collected only by ‘atheist people’, and when the terrible season of such horrible events is over, we tremble from the consequences. appeared ... “
(Isaac D'Israeli, "Memories of the Percival Stockdale," 1809) commentary
The light side of the biography
"St. Augustine's objections are the first autobiography, and they can distinguish it from other autobiographies. They address God directly."(Arthur Symons, Numbers of the Centuries, 1916)
"I'm writing fiction and I want to turn it into my own biography. I'm writing a biography and I'm told it's fiction, so I'm so weak and they're so smart, let them decide what they are or not.“
(Philip Roth, Deception, 1990)
- "I am writing an unconfirmed biography.“
- (Steven Wright)
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