Abstract
ABSTRACTIn her ‘anti-memoir’ entitled Making It Up (2005), contemporary British novelist Penelope Lively rewrites key episodes of her life story and her personal history by fictionalising them. Taking the voice of different characters who were important in Lively's personal and social development, the author revises each of the eight personal and historical episodes that conform her ‘anti-memoir’. By distancing herself from her real self through fiction, Lively highlights the unfaithful nature of time and memory together with the constructed nature of narrative when recounting personal and collective history. On the other hand, Making It Up points out to the close interrelationship between the personal and the historical in an era, the twentieth century, riddled with traumatic events which escaped the author's immediate understanding but which she successfully recaptures and reorders through fictionalised narrative.
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