Delatni potencijal autobiografije

Abstract

Autobiografija (AB) je narativno svedočanstvo proživljenih promena o sebi i svom vremenu, ali i delatno narativno stvaranje smisla. AB nisu individualni nego kolektivni tekstovi. Uticajni autobiografi kao akteri sećanja oblikuju prošla i buduća očekivanja, razočarenja, nade i kroje kognitivne sheme za razumevanje mogućnosti sadašnjice. Memoari su uticajne AB u prelaznim dobima. AB narativno svladava-ju masovne nesigurnosti samoviđenja kod čitalaca. Publika u vlasti-tom kontingentnom životu neretko traži narativni sklad sličan onome kod uglednog autobiografa. U prilogu je pokazan pakt uticajnih auto-biografa sa publikom (D. Ćosić,V. Čerčil, A. Šper).

An autobiography (AB) is a narrative testimony of the changes experienced in oneself and one’s time but also an active creation of the meaning. AB are not individual but collective texts. The influential autobiographers as actors of memory shape past and future expectations, disappointments, and hopes, and create cognitive schemes for the understanding of the possibilities of the present. Memoirs are influential AB in the transition periods. AB narratively overcome the mass uncertainties of self-vision among readers. The audience in their own contingent life often looks for a narrative harmony similar to that of a respectable autobiographer. The paper considers some pacts of influential autobiographers with the audience (D. Ćosić, V. Churchill, A. Speer.