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Symposium "Mirror and Mask. Biographical truths under construction." „Die biographische Wahrheit ist nicht zu haben, und wenn man sie hätte, wäre sie nicht zu gebrauchen.“ (Sigmund Freud) The symposium will focus on the processes of manipulation, stylisation and (un)masking used to construct life stories, looking also at the suppression and annihilation of biography as an extreme or limit case. What kinds of contradictions and gaps are created by biographical construction or by competing biographical constructions? What rhetorical and aesthetic strategies are involved and what role do politics and ideology play? The relevance of autobiographical material for ‘biographical truth’ will also be considered. Presentations at the symposium will deal with the full range of biographical writing, from fact-oriented biographical record to more self-consciously literary approaches. Particular emphasis will be given to the often contested reception and influence of biographical texts. A symposium organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in cooperation with the Austrian National Library and the Austrian Society for Literature. Date: 24/25 April 2006 Venues: Austrian National Library and Austrian Society for Literature, Vienna You will find further details about this symposium (programme and abstracts) at: http://gtb.lbg.ac.at/index.php? pId=e5317fg16838qie200535&mediaId=10&languageId=EN&mode=record&aId=16 -- Hannes Schweiger Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie Josefsplatz 1 1015 Wien Austria Email: [log in to unmask] Tel.: +43-1-53410-641 Fax: +43-1-53410-340