Fact and Conjecture as a Principal Binary of Biographical Narrative

Abstract

Biographical writings emphasize the ability of fiction to combine facts and conjectures.This binary is laid at the level of documentary bases of biography, presented by memoirs, epistolary, diaries. Self-image forming is accompanied by some mystification owing to variety of reasons.

Person’s biography has its own plot. It may be interesting or boring for other people. Real life can be devoid of intriguing facts (as an option – a person works hard and has no leisure time), then you need to show the facts of inner life and to develop them into the story, interesting to readers.The role of the personal factor is determinant, because the writer presents a subjective vision of certain events in the life of a historical figure.

Biographical narrative is a productive way of entry of the individual into the culture.Ego-fiction, which originated as a literary form of individualism, has become a peculiar phenomenon of modernist literature (J. Kotsiubynsky, O. Kobylanska, V. Stefanik).The original work serves as a grateful modeling material for further artistic biography, because it contains not only autobiographical motives, but also expresses deep reflection.

Modern biography marks the transition from being plot-eventual to associative and psychological.In the process of psychobiographical works’ creation the object of the real life story becomes the object of the author's reflection.There is the increasing of aesthetic imperative – the writer's conscious effort to recreate the life of the individual and biography interestingly and artistically accomplished.

Interest to the biography as a literary genre is powered by universal interest to ourselves. The penetration into the inner world of writer’s own characters is a branch of creativity itself.