Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Modern Autobiography: The Experience of an Artifact -- Poetics of Mind: The Structure of Our Cognition -- Poetics of Autobiography: Goals and Techniques -- Notes -- Jean-Paul Sarte: The Words (1964) -- In Other Words, Who is Griselda? -- Being Griselda: A Matter of Blending Mental Spaces -- More Than an Analogy: Further Insight into the Blend -- Georges Perec:: W or The Memory of Childhood (1975) -- A Writing Experience: Fragmented Narratives -- A Life/Death Experience: A Lacerated Nation -- Time Is More Than a Thief. Time Is an Executioner -- ÏI Have No Childhood Memories.Ó Loss, Absence and Separation -- Going Up and Down or from Utopia to Distopia. Athletic Mental Processes -- Fleeting Memories. Final Ascent to the Top of W -- W, Ï the Memory of Their Death and the Assertion of My LifeÓ -- Notes -- Nathalie Sarraute: Childhood (1983) -- Slashing into Smooth Surfaces. Prohibition and Transgression -- Non-Perceptual Field and the Paradisiacal Association with the Mother -- Decentering, Imbalance, and Culpability. The Mother as a Perceptual Periphery -- Quest for Recentering. The Father as a Potential Center -- VeraÌs Instability. Perceptual Dissociation and Constant Practice for Autonomy -- Centered Selfhood. Balance and Autonomy -- Bibliography -- Literary Texts Studied -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources THEORY -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE. -- CHARLES PERRAULT. -- GEORGES PEREC. -- NATHALIE SARRAUTE. -- OTHER.