The autobiography is a story that a person makes 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 subjectivity of the author.
Although the 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 serve you: Narrator protagonist
Some elements that include autobiographies are:
- Important facts and events.
- People who were decisive.
- Setting and context.
- Projects, objectives, goals and aspirations.
Examples of autobiographies
- Live to tell it, Gabriel García Márquez.
- Autobiography , Agatha Christie.
- Confessions , Augustine of Hippo.
- Autobiography, Charles Darwin.
- Memoirs of a formal young woman , Simone de Beauvoir.
- The first man, Albert Camus.
- If this is a man, Primo Levi
- My autobiography of Charles Chaplin.
- Story of my life , Giacomo Casanova
- The fish in the water, Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt.
- Paris was a party , Ernest Hemingway.
- Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Vladimir Nabokov
- Memoirs, Tennessee Williams.
- Orwell in Spain, George Orwell.
- Poetry and Truth , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Childhood, adolescence and youth, León Tolstoy.
- The words , Jean Paul Sartre.
- Ecce homo. How you get to be what you are , Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Makaland Field Force, The River War and My Early Life , Winston Churchill.
- The story of my life , Helen Keller.
- A story of love and darkness, Amos Oz.
- The magic lantern , Ingmar Bergman.
- Look where and the worst part , Fernando Savater.
- My life. An attempt at autobiography , Leon Trotsky.
