The fiction of the I

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The Fiction of the I is an introduction for the English-speaking reader to eight contemporary Austrian writers who have achieved critical acclaim and who, to a greater or lesser degree, write autobiographical prose. This thematic introduction to Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Peter Henisch, Edgar Hilsenrath, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Rosei, Gerhard Roth and Fred Wander will make the reader want to discover at first hand the works of these various authors, all of whom have been translated into English.-- Even a cursory consideration of 'autobiographical' texts will reveal their great variety and their idiosyncratic relationship to the question of subjectivity. When and how does a text become autobiographical? How is autobiographical writing related to the search of self-identity? Does gender modulate the articulation of the autobiographical voice?