Abstract
The subject of this paper is the analysis of the genre characteristics of one of the most controversial memoirs of today, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces . Without neglecting the social and cultural context in which Frey's work was published, the paper focuses on the study of the relations of A Million Little Pieces with the memoir canon, as well as with contemporary observations of cognitive psychologists regarding the mentioned genre. An in-depth analysis of A Million Little Pieces between the classic and the contemporary view of the memoir characteristics suggests that this piece of work uses the potential of classic memoirs in an innovative way (the re-creation of memories, issue of objectivity and the status of truth, narration about the feat, moral witness’ story, interference with literary and non-literary genres), varies in content and significantly reviews definitions of memoirs.
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