Autobiography

The autobiography It is a story that a person tells about his own life, in which he includes the most relevant and determining events in his history. For example: the date of birth, the publication of a work, anecdotes, hobbies, the receipt of an award, the death of a relative, your wedding, the birth of your children.

These narratives are usually written in the first person and the events that are related are circumscribed to the life of their author. This means that author, protagonist and narrator converge in a single person. Even so, what is narrated is not necessarily real: everything is subject to the author's subjectivity.

Despite the fact that autobiographies tell a life story, they do not always have to respect the chronological order. Regarding the length, tone, language and structure of the work, there are no established guidelines.

• It can help you: Main narrator

Some elements that include autobiographies are:

• Major facts and events.
• People who were decisive.
• Setting and context.
• Projects, objectives, goals and aspirations.

Examples of autobiographies

1. Live to tell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
2. Autobiography, Christie Agatha.
3. Confessions, Augustine of Hippo.
4. Autobiography, Charles Darwin.
5. Memoirs of a formal young woman, Simone de Beauvoir.
6. The first man, Albert Camus.
7. If this is a Man, Cousin levi
8. My autobiography by Charles Chaplin.
9. Story of my life, Giacomo Casanova
10. A Fish in the Water, Mario Vargas Llosa.
11. Angela's ashes, Frank McCourt.
12. Paris was a party, Ernest Hemingway.
13. Speak, Memory: A Revisited Autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov
14. Memories, Tennessee Williams.
15. Orwell in Spain, George Orwell.
16. Poetry and truth, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
17. Childhood, adolescence and youth, Leo Tolstoy.
18. Words, Jean Paul Sartre.
19. Ecce homo. How do you get to be what you are, Friedrich Nietzsche.
20. Makaland Field Force, The River War Y My Early Life, Winston Churchill.
21. The story of my life, Helen Keller.
22. A story of love and darkness Amos Oz.
23. The magic lantern, Ingmar Bergman.
24. Look where Y Worst part, Fernando Savater.
25. My life. An attempt at autobiography, Leon Trotsky.

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