ABSTRACT
And yet, the development of a psychology that seemingly expanded the resources available for would-be autobiographers, and the increasing experimentation brought about by the very popularity of the genre, revealed at the same time the fundamental and inescapable limitations of autobiography. Even prior to Nietzsche’s own work in the genre, the conceptual limitations of autobiography were obvious to any who would study the previous examples. Memory is unreliable, sincerity impossible to establish, language distorting, and the holy trinity of autobiographical persons – author, narrator, and protagonist – can seemingly never be made into One.
