Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction Tobias Rochelle
Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction Tobias Rochelle Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity…
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Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction Tobias Rochelle
Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness.Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base.
In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing.