Thinly veiled autobiography definition

"There has been a great tendency in our day on the part of authors to write autobiographical novels.

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We should not deprecate this tendency. When I think that Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola, Tolstoi, Dostoievsky, Turgenev, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, George Meredith and Henry James were often autobiographical, I realise that all literary men, novelists as well as poets, are compelled to wear their hearts on their sleeves by virtue of their art.

That criticism which reproached Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Senancour and De Musset for having been occupied too much with themselves is unfair. With whom else would the critics have the authors occupied?

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A man cannot get out of himself. When he undertakes to write a book, he tells us practically beforehand that he is going to talk about himself. " --The Erotic Motive in In Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, how does Esther describe ... LETA