The Time before Death: Twentieth-Century Memoirs
In: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft v. 159
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Metaphor of Loss in Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory -- André Gide's If It Die: The Creative Gamble -- Günter Grass's Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: The Final Battle with the Black Witch -- Jean-Paul Sartre's Words: On the Impact of Childhood -- Boris Pasternak's Safe Conduct and I Remember: A Charmed Life -- Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Reawakening: A Tormented Spirit -- Arthur Koestler's The Invisible Writing: Autobiography as Escape from the Self -- Maxim Gorky's Childhood: Beyond Good and Evil -- Octavio Paz's The Itinerary. An Intellectual Journey: In Search of Identity -- Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern: A Bipolar Journey -- Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being: The Silence Within -- Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks: The Chameleon Self -- Christa Wolf's One Day A Year, 1960-2000: The Fear of Self-Revelation -- Natalie Sarraute's Enfance: The Return to Life -- Lidiya Chukovskaya's To the Memory of Childhood: In Her Father's Shadow -- One Last Farmstead of Feeling.