Self Impression

I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.'' Paul Valéry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers...