Antibiography
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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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