Antibiography

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The history of the unsavory aspects of a person's life.

    "Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find a kind of antibiography and anti-quest."

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"Doctor Zhivago invokes two kinds of images of space and time: those of the biographical novel, with its inside spaces of family stability, and those of the road, the quest - except that here we find a kind of antibiography and anti-quest."

Etymology

From anti- + biography.

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