Experiments in Life-Writing Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction

“The book is a welcome contribution to the field of auto/biography studies, since the range of essays allows us to see the diversity in forms and functions of experimental life writing, highlighting in particular that to draw attention to the impossibility of autobiography is only one of many possible effects. … Experiments in Life-Writing offers insightful essays and invites future research on texts that engage with central dimensions of modern life writing.” (Alexandra Effe, Biography, Vol. 42 (2), 2019)



“Lucia Boldrini and Julia Novak have assembled a thought-provoking collection that succeeds in making those ‘questions about the very nature and being of verbal art’ every bit as fundamental to life-writing as to other kinds of literature.” (Patrick Hayes, European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 07, 2018)

Lucia Boldrini is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the author of 
Autobiographies of Others
 (2012), 
Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations
 (2001) and 
Biografie fittizie e personaggi storici
 (1998).

Julia Novak is a Marie Andessner Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK and the University of Salzburg, Austria, working on a project on biographical novels about historical women artists. She has written a book on reading groups, 
Gemeinsam Lesen 
(2007), and a book on 
Live Poetry
(2011).