antibiography

Definitions

The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.

Examples

“Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find⟳ a kind of antibiography and anti-quest.”

“As are all of us, if that's what you are trying to find⟳ out with your little 'antibiography,' shall we say⟳.”

“The first problem we have⟳ to face⟳ in any biography (or antibiography) of Paul is that the primary evidence imposes severe limitations on what we can know⟳, as the Introduction explained.”

“The dialectic is also at work⟳ within Hogarth's interpretation of his antibiography.”

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