parrallels the author's life with a character in one of their books? Please describe the parallels. Also if the author has paralleled his life in several of his works - pick the book that most parallels the author's life.
2006-09-08 11:02:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A fiction book - sorry
2006-09-08 11:16:50 · update #1
This question was not a homework question - I have been out of school for Yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs! I was just trying to give an interesting question to be answered.:)
2006-09-08 14:47:48 · update #2
My first thought is definitely Byron's Don Juan--though when that came out, it was obvious to everyone that it was a wink-wink look at his life. For example, the main character's mother is a Purtian type, terrified of her son ever finding out about sex--and is also cast as a brilliant mathematician, obviously making fun of Byron's ex-wife who he referred to as the "princess of parallelograms", a great mathematician known for being cold and standoffish.
2006-09-08 11:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King did it to a degree in his Dark Tower series. In book 6, The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah, King has two of his characters interact with his life. Specifically they interacted with him during the time he was hit by a van. The two characters, Roland and Jake, interfered with the accident and that is what helped to save King's life.
It's not exactly a parallel story but the scenes surrounding the event mirror what happened it in real life.
2006-09-08 11:35:29 · answer #2 · answered by dagon12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be argued that all of Dickens fiction was a re-examination of his relationship with his parents.
However, his David Copperfield is a novel about a young author.
Parts of the story detail David's life as a young boy when he is forced to work in a factory making blacking (boot polish). This happened to Dickens himself when he was about 11 and the whole blacking factory episode appears, almost unaltered, in David Copperfield, thinly re-written from a short section of autobiography Dickens wrote before he wrote the novel.
2006-09-08 12:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try F Scott Fitzgerald's book Zelda which is a true story of the marriage he had. Most of his books are about himself and coming of age in the Jazz Age. Ftizgerald is very autobiographical and most of his books will be about his own experiences. Homework? Wont write you an essay but there is a good clue.
2006-09-08 13:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by juncogirl3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 23:38:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Charles Bukowski? He wrote a PILE of semi-autobiographical novels, the most popular of which was Post Office.
2006-09-08 13:34:49 · answer #6 · answered by mom3kids&adog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without being an autobiography? I'll say all of Hemingway's work. An obvious choice from the 20th century. Can't pick one in particular so you would have to do the homework....
2006-09-08 11:05:45 · answer #7 · answered by LaBrat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm thinking of James Joyce and Ulyssess. Steven Dedalus is compared to him. I read it so long again I'm not sure if I'm making sense though.
2006-09-08 11:28:25 · answer #8 · answered by Ricky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jane eyre by charlotte bronte is one such book in which the author
narrates incidents relating to her childhood
2006-09-08 22:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋