Description

This is an autonarrated audiobook edition of this book

Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir

Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life Bringing a philosophers perspective to a general audience Helena de Bres addresses what a memoir is how the genre relates to fiction memoirists responsibilities to their readers and subjects and the question of why to write a memoir at all Along the way she delves into a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of the self the limits of knowledge the idea of truth the obligations of friendship the relationship between morality and art and the question of what makes a life meaningful

Written in a clear and conversational style it offers a resource for those who write teach and study memoirs as well as those who love to read them With a combination of literary and philosophical knowledge de Bres takes the many challenges directed at memoirists seriously while ultimately standing in defense of a genre that for all its perplexitiesand maybe partly because of themcontinually proves to be both beloved and valuable