杰罗姆·布鲁纳(Jerome Bruner)在《富有意义的行动(Acts of Meaning,哈佛大学出版社1990年出版)》一书中写道,自传是一种奇特的文学体裁,“是由作者在一定时间一定场合对在某时某地负有其名的故事主角所作的叙述。……这种长篇大论往往词藻华丽而又巧言善辩,似乎是要证明故事主角走上一条特别的人生之路是必然的。作为讲述者自己,不仅要进行详细叙述而且要证明其非常正确。” Jerome Bruner wrote in The Acts of Meaning, published by Harvard University Press in 1990, that autobiography is a peculiar literary genre “written by the author At some time and for certain occasions narrates the protagonist of the story that has its place in a certain place ... Such a long story is often gorgeous and clever, as if to prove that the protagonist takes a special life The road is inevitable, and as a narrator himself, it is not only necessary to describe it in detail, but to prove that it is very correct. ”