ABSTRACT
The field of life-writing lacks its own specific theory, most specifically on a textual level, that could serve as a basic tool in all kinds of different analytical accounts. This chapter gives explanations about the process of textual composition of framing and articulating the lived experience of famous literary figures, by proposing the theory of life-writing intertextuality called biopreservation. The dual nature of the sequences as both factual and fictional is the turning point in demystifying the narrative practice in life-writing genre play. The chapter explores the phenomena of genre blending in life-writing. It shows that any auto/biographical material can be handled differently by different authors and more so when it comes to a narrative, subject to a life-writing genre play. The chapter concludes that biopreservation as inherent textuality stands for the boundless and borderless capacity of creation and therefore satisfies the demands of the genre play.
