In his book The Gatekeeper, in the midst of a discussion of “anti-philosophers,” Terry Eagleton throws out the following sentence.
… anti-autobiography means not just not writing your autobiography, an astonishly prevalent practice, but writing it in such a way as to outwit the prurience and immodesty of the genre by frustrating your own desire for [...]
Tags: autobiography, delusions of grandeur, Desire, Gatekeeper, hypocrisy, immodesty, jim elliot, journals, notations, prurience, r l stevenson, self deception, terry eagleton
