From Confession to Fiction: The Biography of Autobiography

Abstract

This article evaluates Saniye Köker’s book The Biography of Autobiography, which discusses the emergence and historical development of the autobiography genre in the West. The study explains the origins of autobiography with the philosophical development of the concepts of "selfhood" and "self" and contains theoretical discussions of autobiography and how Western writers and theorists handle the genre. Also, it discusses the first examples of autobiography in Western literature. This evaluation focuses on the relationship between fiction and the culture of confession, which plays an important role in the construction of the "I" in language and the presentation of individuality in literature.