ABSTRACT
However, Lejeune himself remained dissatisfied with this since it did not seem to provide a sufficient boundary between autobiography and the adjacent genres of biography and fiction. A certain ‘latitude’ in classifying particular cases might be admitted but one condition for autobiography was absolute: there must be ‘identity between the author, the narrator, and the protagonist’ (Lejeune 1982: 193). However, the difficulty is how to apply this condition since the ‘identity’ Lejeune speaks of can never really be established except as a matter of intention on the part of the author.
