‘Which I Presume is Permitted, Since We Are Talking About A Writer.’ Lateness, Memory, and Imagination in Literary Autobiography

In Summertime, a fictional biographer, Mr Vincent, conducts interviews with contemporaries of the novelist J.M. Coetzee for a biography of the late author. However, every claim made about the late Coetzee by the characters in Summertime is composed by the author himself, so the hidden, yet obvious p...

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Main Author: Melissa Schuh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Groningen Press 2020-12-01
Series:European Journal of Life Writing
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Online Access:https://ejlw.eu/article/view/37328