ABSTRACT

What happened? What happened to you? Did it really happen? Did it really happen as you now describe it? And then more sophisticated questions: Why are you telling me this? If it did not happen as you described it in your book, how do you justify this discrepancy? Did you misremember or did you lie? Is memory trustworthy anyway (it seems not)? Why did you decide to publish this autobiography in the first place? Why does one share privacy, and with a large audience? Where does this satisfaction as a published autobiographer stem from?