Robert Kusek is a lecturer in the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, as well as culture manager, editor, and translator. He graduated with honours from the Institute of English Philology and the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. In 2011 he completed his doctoral thesis on biographical-novel-about-a-writer. His research interests include life-writing, poetics of memory and loss, the Holocaust and its representation in culture, postcolonialism, and media. He is also active in intercultural dialogue and holds the position of the Polish Coordinator of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow.
The work is an ambitious attempt to tackle the important and current topic of theoretical, historical, and literary criticism. In accordance with the promise made in the title, the author discusses the selection of biographical novels and classifies different variations, based on theoretical thought. -- Miroslawa Buchholtz, Professor of English and Director of the English Department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
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