![]() ![]() As a young man, having recently published his first book, a character named Michael Chabon sits at the bedside of his grandfather. (Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among the writers who have published books in which the protagonists seem purposefully confusable with the authors and in which events feel less narrated than transcribed from life.)Ĭhabon's autofiction steeps the reader in family history. You could call it autofiction – the blurring of autobiography and fiction, memoir and novel, that's experiencing a surge in popularity. In Moonglow, Chabon's latest novel, this journey into the past is deeply, directly personal. ![]() His work has almost always offered an investigation into Jewish identity, specifically the experience and aftermath of the Holocaust it was the unexpected interleaving of this history with the rise of the comics industry that made his strongest novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, feel weighty and particular. As we move forward in a new millennium, Michael Chabon continues to look to the past. ![]()
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