The Narratology of the Autobiography
Subtitle: An Analysis of the Literary Devices Employed in Ivan Bunin's the Life of Arsen'Ev (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: September 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780820433578
Subjects: Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich; Russian Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; 1870-1953; 20th century; Autobiography in literature; Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich,; History; Narration (Rhetoric); Zhizn Arseneva; Biography/Autobiography
Description: As most secondary literature on the autobiography confuses the relationship between author, narrator, and hero/heroine, this study begins by analyzing this problem.

Ivan Bunin's The Life of Arsen'ev can be best characterized as "autobiography as the creation of fiction, told exclusively from a grown-up perspective." Special attention is paid to the relationship between the child-like-hero, grown-up hero/heroine, and the narrator, to the extent that the fictional narrative is based on primary material from Bunin's life.