Recent Posts Tagged With 'autobiography'

• You probably think this blog is about you (part four)

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 18:01 in autobiography, beckett, süskind

  Part OnePart TwoPart ThreeWho in their right mind sits down to write a novel? I certainly never did. Not the first one in any case. I read blogs all the time of young people struggling with that first book, determined that they're going to drag that ...

• You probably think this blog is about you (part three)

  Posted on Saturday May 10th, 2008 at 18:12 in autobiography, beckett, süskind

  Part OnePart TwoBeckett’s posthumously published first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is a blatantly autobiographical work set in Dublin, Ireland. The story of Beckett’s first antihero, Belacqua Shuah, whom the publisher (Calder Books) c...

• You probably think this blog is about you (part two)

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 05:20 in autobiography, beckett

  Part OneWriting is a very personal thing. I write to work things out. I write a sentence, maybe a paragraph, and I look at it and say to myself: "Does that make any sense? Am I saying what I mean here?" I've just done that here. I know each and every...

• You probably think this blog is about you (part one)

  Posted on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 18:03 in autobiography

  In the opening paragraph from the preface to what became the first volume of his 'autobiography', Unreliable Memoirs, Clive James has this to say:Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel. On the periphe...