Two Sisters: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir | Literary Precedents
Unlike more traditional autobiographical novels — works in which an author reshapes the materials of his own life to give them form and closure (for example, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens [1850] or The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer [1948]) — and in distinction from the biographical novel (such as Vidal's Burr, 1973), the sort of autobiographical novel Vidal is writing in Two Sisters fuses fact and invention by remaining true to the psychology of the author while inventing a fictional world for him to observe. In classic illustrations of this...
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