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Literary Woman’s Biography
Literary Woman’s Biography

Between Fact and Fiction

Author(s): Irina Tumbovska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Vermilion ZIM
Keywords: Smilevski; pseudo-biography; metafictional novels

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this text is to show the reconstructed biography of the novels Sigmund Freud’s Sister and The Return of Words. I purposely chose these novels as they are based on forgotten biographies. The hypertext is a historiographical text, more precisely the biography, memoirs and letters kept till today – in which certain information about these women are written. Biography, as a genre, portrays a person’s life and if we didn’t know the hypotext, we would think that these novels are a real biography, because of the fact that Smilevski almost indiscernible reconstructs the past and simulates their life stories while staying close to the truth.

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 26-39
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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