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Biography, or Life as a Story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Arthur Tatossian
Arthur Tatossian*
Affiliation:
Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille
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Biography is a story, and a story is something that is meant to be told. It is thus quite evident that biography is the tale of a life: a life-story (Lebensgeschichte in German). But then the question arises as to what exactly is a story and how apt is it for representing life within the limits of this representation as compared to other representations of life: the painted or written portrait, the private diary, the oral or tape-recorded interview, the curriculum vitae, the anthropometric file or the epitaph, which at least has the merit of being concise.

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Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 35 , Issue 139 , September 1987 , pp. 95 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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