As for indulging in excessive (though admittedly economical) sesquipedality, it is the lesser sin. Anyway it will be possible to add index and glossary to the next editionÂ-which might be an English edition, a highly desirable thing. A glossary would have been a welcome minimum.3 In fact, this book also points towards the making of something more graphic than a glossary and its burden of cross-references : a chart of the notional field of the discipline.4 These are minor observations. The reader legitimately wonders how the late comers fit in the pattern. "homéobiographie," "biographomachies," "contre-biographie," on pages 86, 92, 103 respectively), while, as is natural, his biographical typology comes at the beginning (pp. REVIEWS 365 Now, considering Madelénat is never so good as when he establishes criteria and proposes a taxonomy, one may express a regret: some of the new terms he proposes for filling the lexical field of biography are scattered throughout his book (e.g. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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