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Hantises is an intellectual and lyrical autobiography of an alter ego name Friday Burns. It raises concerns about perilous connections that exist between books and people's lives.
The Destiny of Nathalie 'X'" (previously published in Granta [2]) - Aurelién No, a French-speaking West African student wins a prize from ESEC for a short film. He uses the winnings to fund a trip to Hollywood to film the sequel and chooses to set it in a seedy suburb in Westchester near LAX .
An alter ego (from Latin, "other I") is another self, a second personality or persona within a person. The term is commonly used in literature analysis and comparison to describe characters who are psychologically identical.
An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as alterations.
The literary concept of the heteronym refers to one or more imaginary character(s) created by a writer to write in different styles. Heteronyms differ from pen names (or pseudonyms, from the Greek words for "false" and "name") in that the latter are just false names, while the former are characters that have their own supposed physiques, biographies, and writing styles.
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Metamagical Themas was also published in French, under the title Ma Thémagie (InterEditions, 1988), the translators being Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Jean-Luc Bonnetain, and Lise Rosenbaum. The wordplay was lost in the French title, and replaced with another one ( ma Thémagie would translate to "my themagy", where "themagy" is a neologism , but ...
In the past, I've tried to make a distinction in my own use of the term between autobiographical fiction, autobiographical metafiction, and autofiction, arguing that in autofiction there tends to be an emphasis on the narrator's or protagonist's or authorial alter ego's status as a writer or artist and that the book's creation is inscribed in ...