Autobiographical Writing and Courage of the Truth in "A death in the Family" of Karl Ove Knausgaard

Authors

  • Álvaro Luque Amo Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201953763

Keywords:

Knausgard, autobiography, autofiction, theory of literature, Foucault

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the autobiographical character of A death in the Family of Karl Ove Knausgård. Starting from the theses of Manuel Alberca and Michel Foucault, this work can be interpreted as autobiography in the sense established by Philippe Lejeune, related to the pragmatic pact between author and reader. Additionally, it can determine the diference between autobiography and autofiction in the framework of the Literature of the Self. 

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Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Luque Amo, Álvaro. (2019). Autobiographical Writing and Courage of the Truth in "A death in the Family" of Karl Ove Knausgaard. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (5), 110–119. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201953763