ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book studies the most prominent debates in all the literary forms resulting from the life-writing genre play such as biographical fictions, autobiographical fictions and literary biographies. It reveals the specific textual and narrative transformation resulting from the fact and fiction duality pertinent to biographical fictions. The book intends to reveal is how the genre play has become an inherent feature of postmodern writing, often associated with specific forms of textuality. It discusses the blending of the traditional critical theory and creative practices and outline new insights into the theory and the craft of contemporary postmodern fiction. The book provides critical review of the existing biographies, strictly factual and more fictional, published about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. It outlines the major theoretical concepts arising from the analysis and confirms the necessity for the concept of biopreservation in understanding contemporary biofictional narratives.
