Italian poet Umberto Saba wrote a book length critical commentary about his own work as if by another hand. That other hand was a device for dealing with what he was doing. He wasn’t hiding behind it and he was transparently the author. (Translated Stephen Sartarelli as History and Chronicle of The Songbook, Sheap Meadow, 1998).
Are there other cases of authors writing substantial commentaries about their own work as if by another hand, whether transparently or hiding behind that?
I am not interested in anonymous or pseudonymous reviews or hypes or similar of one’s own work.
Thanks, Anthony
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