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![]() ![]() ![]() Biographical desire-the desire to treat a literary text as a way of coming to know its author-is not new, but it is particularly evident in the present day, when it is facilitated by a matrix of media offering writers diverse opportunities to make their faces known and to articulate the personal basis of their work. Even in the case of fiction, a literary mode in which the author is the producer of the text but not, strictly speaking, its subject, there is often curiosity and debate about how it came to be written and whether or not it is based on its author’s life. Despite the decentring or dismissal of the author by various critical movements in the twentieth century, the notion of authorship has hardly withered away. Writers and readers of fiction alike are susceptible to the pull of biographical desire. Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ![]()
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