In this major study of the western tradition of literary autobiography, John Sturrock analyses the means by which the greatest autobiographers, from Augustine through Rousseau, Goethe and Darwin to Jean-Paul Sartre, have gone about establishing textual versions of themsleves.
Journey to the End of the Night is a novel of sauage, exultant misanthropy, full of cynical humor and of the blackest pessimism in respect of humanity. In this... Læs mere