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This article argues that David Markson’s four last works, often referred to as a quartet or a tetralogy (1996–2007), and Evan Lavender‐Smith’s From Old Notebooks (2010) can be classified as collage autothanatographies. Both authors construct their formally experimental books out of brief snippets that combine personal meditations on death with various facts, anecdotes, and self‐reflexive comments...
This article explores the relationship between Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776‐88) and his Autobiographies (1788‐93). The author challenges the opinion that a secure historian‐persona moves seamlessly between these works, controlling the vagaries of life and text, and instead argues that the incomplete and fragmentary Autobiographies respond to the fragments of marble that...
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