Nearer, My God (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Autobiography and essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Essays
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Education or educators, Religion, Christianity, Women, Catholics or Catholic Church, Christmas, Mass, Catholic
No less than a novel, an autobiography is a work of art or, at least, of craft. The two forms are opposite sides of the same literary coin: Fiction is a kind of autobiography and vice versa. “An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned,” novelist and journalist V. S. Naipaul has written, “but fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.” Some autobiographies, especially those of writers, have achieved great literary merit by virtue of their very evasiveness and stylization: Graham Greene’s A Sort of Life (1971) and Naipaul’s own The Enigma of...
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