TY - BOOK AU - De Bres,Helena TI - Artful truths: the philosophy of memoir SN - 9780226788135 AV - CT25 .D39 2021 U1 - 808.06/692 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Autobiography KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index; What is memoir? -- Is all memoir really fiction? -- Should memoirists aim to tell the truth? -- What do memoirists owe the people they write about -- Why write a memoir? N2 - "From social media to the return of the personal essay to the rise of "autofiction," it seems we inhabit an era of unprecedented self-display. But self-display in its literary form, the memoir, has been around for ages, always freighted with formal and philosophical complexity from Augustine's Confessions on. In this book, philosopher Helena de Bres tackles the philosophy of memoir. What is memoir? Is all memoir really fiction? Should memoirists aim to tell the truth? What do memoirists owe the people they write about? And finally: Why write a memoir at all?"-- ER -