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Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction

Hurley, UK

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I continue his [Sebald's] walks in the world of ruins, of what is dead. I continue his contact with a stimulating tendency of the contemporary novel, a tendency that opens new ground in between essay, fiction and autobiography...


So writes Enrique Vila-Matas in his innovative text, Montano. In attempting to map this new ground, the processes and products of autobiographical fictions will be scrutinised with particular reference to questions of authenticity and voice, drawing examples from texts including James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, which problematise genre boundaries, question the relationship between reader and author, and demonstrate how life experience now, literally, has a price. The paper will conclude by proposing the first steps towards a reading and writing practice where, in the words of Goldberg, ‘every page trembles, vulnerable to manifold incursions - of prior texts, of future accidents, of reading and writing’.

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Hurley, U. (2011). Walking in the world of ruins : explorations in the processes and products of autobiographical fiction. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 5(6), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v05i06/35941

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Sep 1, 2011
Deposit Date Nov 18, 2011
Publicly Available Date Apr 5, 2016
Journal The International Journal of the Arts in Society
Print ISSN 1833-1866
Publisher Common Ground Research Networks
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 6
Pages 1-12
DOI https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v05i06/35941
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/CGP/v05i06/35941
Related Public URLs https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/collections/common-ground-publishing/series/the-arts-in-society

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