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Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in the Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin

by Suzanne Nalbantian · 1994

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Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining Proust, Joyce, and Woolf, with Nin in their wake, Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterized by common aesthetics.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 240 pages

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