"This first complete English analysis of French autobiography ranges, expertly, from Rousseau's Confessions through Stendhal, Chaeaubriand, Gide, Barthes, Sarraute, and many more....A useful tool for faculty and graduate students."--Choice

"Michael Sheringham engages, with subtlety, complexity, and admirable clarity, all the issues that students of the intriguing but elusive genre of autobiography have been pondering for the past quarter of a century....French Autobiography is a thoughtful and vigorous book, as fine as any I have seen on autobiography in some years. There is a strong intelligence at work in the book calling out an equal response from its readers, a group that should include anyone interested in the state of the art, whether that art be autobiography or criticism or the project that includes both, literature itself."--L'Esprit Createur

"A valuable contribution to a dynamic area of literary studies. This is a scholarly, methodical study....Impressive in its breadth of knowledge, examining theories and texts from eighteenth century to the present day. The synthesis achieved is remarkable, and the book, densely packed with ideas, requires and deserves attentive reading."--Modern Language Review

"French Autobiography offers stimulating general insights into autobiographical as well as lucid critical analyses of individual texts."--IBiography