The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography

Abstract

In an autobiography one cannot avoid writing often where truth would require that once be written. For one always remains conscious that the word once explodes that darkness on which the memory draws; and though it is not altogether spared by the word often, either, it is at least preserved in the opinion of the writer, and he is carried across parts which perhaps never existed at all in his life but serve him as a