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AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

Author(s): Péter Kenéz
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: genre of biography and autobiography; narratology of autobiography; 1956; Hungarian Revolution; “objectivity” of history-writing;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a verbatim reproduction of a talk. In it I posed two questions: 1. To what extent my writing of Hungarian history, 1944–1948 was influenced by my past? 2. To what extent my writing of an autobiography was influenced by the fact that I am a historian?

  • Issue Year: 20/2006
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 223-231
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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