Philippe lejeune autobiography
Thirty color photographs and an interview with the legendary commercial photographer.
All the meth- ods that autobiography uses to convince us of the authenticity of its narrative can be imitated by the novel, and often have been imitated." This..
Philippe Lejeune
French professor and essayist
For the Belgian equestrian, see Philippe Le Jeune (equestrian).
Philippe Lejeune | |
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Philippe Lejeune | |
| Born | ()13 August France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Yearsactive | – |
Philippe Lejeune (French pronunciation:[filipləʒœn]; born 13 August ) is a French professor and essayist, known as a specialist in autobiography.[1] He is the author of numerous works on the subject of autobiography and personal journals.
He is a cofounder of the Association pour l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographique (Association for Autobiography and Autobiographical Heritage) created in Paris in
As Lejeune notes in The Practice of the Private Journal, "the diary is a social outcast, of no fixed theoretical address," a problematic profile that has caused one of the most widely practiced autobiographical forms to be largely ignored or misrepresented.
Lejeune’s scholarship has been instrumental in revising such