Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay pays tribute to Laura Marcus’s work on autobiography, and her interest in emergent aesthetic discourses, by discussing two fictionalised memoirs, John Berger’s Here is Where We Meet, and Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal. One theme is the lure of what Yves Bonnefoy calls ‘cet ailleurs insituable’ or the ‘elsewhere’. In the course of the discussion of autobiographical ruses I also briefly discuss confessional poetry, and Virginia Woolf, with Laura Marcus as interlocutor.

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