ABSTRACT
The historical genre that best reflected these paradigms was the historical monograph, and historians trained in these methodologies tended to carry the structure of the monograph to their autobiographical projects. This chapter focuses on these historians, who wrote their autobiographies in the 1990s and early 2000s, usually at the end of their careers or their lives. Monographic autobiographers have a particular commitment not only to historical truth: an objective they share with all historian", but also to the appearance of historical truth. It analyzes about the Felix Gilbert's transitional autobiography and then move to three characteristic monographic texts: the autobiographies by Annie Kriegel, Eric Hobsbawm and Richard Pipes. Felix Gilbert specialized in early modern and modern European history, particularly in the field of German and Italian historical thought. Eric Hobsbawm considers himself part of world history and believes that his autobiography is "the flip side" of twentieth-century history, "an introduction to the most extraordinary century in the world's history".
