Abstract
Geoffrey Household's autobiography titled Against the Wind (1958) demonstrates the hybridity of life-writing or personal narrative by borrowing freely from the major dynamic of his prose fiction, which involves the playing off of the picaresque against old-fashioned romance. Reconstructing the major stages of his career in international commerce, military service, and literary authorship, Household's text bears witness to his sympathy for Zionism, given the horrors of the Holocaust, and to the specter of a “dying Europe” that was rapidly succumbing to the interwar realities of political modernity. Although his 23 novels probably will never enjoy a widespread readership, in Against the Wind this once popular author presents a compelling minority report on his times. For these and other reasons, Household's midlife memoir warrants attention by those interested in the reconfigurations of nonfictional prose.
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