DELATNI POTENCIJAL AUTOBIOGRAFIJE
ACTING POTENTIAL OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: An autobiography (AB) is a narrative testimony of the changes experienced in oneself and one’s time but also an active creation of the meaning. AB are not individual but collective texts. The influential autobiographers as actors of memory shape past and future expectations, disappointments, and hopes, and create cognitive schemes for the understanding of the possibilities of the present. Memoirs are influential AB in the transition periods. AB narratively overcome the mass uncertainties of self-vision among readers. The audience in their own contingent life often looks for a narrative harmony similar to that of a respectable autobiographer. The paper considers some pacts of influential autobiographers with the audience (D. Ćosić, V. Churchill, A. Speer).

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