{"product_id":"pseudomemoirs-life-and-its-imitation-in-modern-fiction-9780803215924","title":"PseudoMemoirs  Life and Its Imitation in Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePseudo-Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e explores the return in the twentieth century of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePseudo-Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e is a great scholarly achievement that has lain the groundwork for new directions in research on (auto-)biographical fiction.\"—Benjamin Schaper, \u003ci\u003eGermanic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The literary eccentrics studied here have been gathered together before . . . but Tobias's highly original and creative philosophical argument makes it a gathering worth attending.\"—Paul Buchholz, \u003ci\u003eMonatshefte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its bold reevaluation of the relationship between fictional and nonfictional discourses, \u003ci\u003ePseudo-Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e offers an important new perspective on the concept of realism and invites us to rethink our understanding of the ideological force of authorial paradigms.”—Jan Mieszkowski, author of \u003ci\u003eCrises of the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable. . . . Refreshingly immune to the passing fads of our critical situation, Rochelle Tobias’s sober and caring study makes valuable and lasting contributions to the intersection of literature and philosophy, German studies, comparative modernism, literary theory, narratology, and the study of aesthetic autobiography.”—Gerhard Richter, University Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Phenomenology and the Truth of Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Character: Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Narrator: Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Work: Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Author: W. G. Sebald’s Vertigo\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: On the Value of Dissembling\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405240934743,"sku":"9780803215924","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803215924.jpg?v=1730489243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pseudomemoirs-life-and-its-imitation-in-modern-fiction-9780803215924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}