Word: autobiographyã
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...Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography??a treatise on youth, love, literature and death—whose frame is the journal of the Mexican poet Juan García Madero. Madero is the disciple, devotee and faithful hanger-on of two older poets, Arturo Belano (Bolaño’s alter ego throughout his fiction) and Ulises Lima, who follows the pair through the Sonora Desert in flight from a violent pimp and his henchmen. The intervening chapters of the novel?...
This particular perspective on the art is especially evident in his third section: one long poem entitled “Autobiography of My Alter Ego.” “Autobiography?? tells the story of a man, not unlike Komunyakaa, who has spent time in Vietnam. Unlike Komunyakaa, however, he never moved beyond working at his father’s bar, and the whole poem resembles the unfocused rant of a slightly destabilized veteran. Here, the urgency that was muted throughout the other sections becomes more apparent. Komunyakaa’s alter ego is angry and full...
...address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship between Harvard and body issues—stems from last fall’s “Autobiography?? theme. Both the exhibition and its title, “More Than Skin Deep,” are intended to demonstrate the all-encompassing nature of body issues. “Body image is not just restricted to the way you look, your weight, height, and skin color...
...Oprah-esque tale and eccentricity stick in his students’ minds. He still reads slowly and has to budget ample time for grading student work. Even his movements occasionally give off the same rehearsed quality as his oral autobiography??every time he is about to climb a staircase, he spins around one full revolution. When asked what this accomplishes, Bolger says, “Oh, that. Yeah, I do a lot of funny things...
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