{"product_id":"louis-rene-des-forets-and-inner-autobiography","title":"Louis-René des Forêts and Inner Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis-René des Forêts (1916-2000) devoted the last twenty-five years of his writing life to an innovative practice of autobiography, spanning poetry and fragmentary prose, and culminating in the key works \u003cem\u003ePoèmes de Samuel Wood\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eOstinato\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and the posthumously published \u003cem\u003ePas à pas jusqu'au dernier\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). Ian Maclachlan's study is the first to take this innovation in life-writing as its principal focus and to draw out the wider resonances of des Forêts's distinctive project for the theory and practice of autobiography. Des Forêts's unusual traversal of genres, formal experimentation, and sparseness of biographical detail give rise to a new mode of abstract, impersonal autobiographical writing. Echoing des Forêts's own, earlier use of the term \u003cem\u003eautobiographie intérieure\u003c\/em\u003e in relation to his short-story collection \u003cem\u003eLa Chambre des enfants \u003c\/em\u003e(1960), as well as his friend Georges Bataille's idiosyncratic notion of \u003cem\u003eexpérience intérieure\u003c\/em\u003e, this novel style of life-writing is explored here under the rubric of 'inner autobiography'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Maclachlan is Professor of French Literature and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Legenda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393215172882,"sku":"9781781889367","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cd0327c-090b-40ad-873f-f033fc3cc0d2.jpg?v=1728986750","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/louis-rene-des-forets-and-inner-autobiography","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}