Narrating the Human and Singing the Sacred Song: Notes toward an Aesthetic of Biography

Drawing upon the theoretical writings of Tzvetan Todorov and Georg Lukács on subject novel, this essay argues for more widespread recognition biography as a literary genre. It frames genre radical incompleteness, discussing search verisimilitude tendency toward fragmentation in biographer’s pursuit — quality that describes not only sources, but also contingent, broken nature intellectual emotional space both biographical biographer herself inhabit.