levels to three literary genres: the indi- vidual corresponds to biography, a genre based on the life of a single character, in contrast to epic or historical narrative; the subject cor- responds to autobiography or memoirs, where the individual tells his life story; and the ego corresponds to confessions or a diary “in which the inner life, the unique subject of a private life – in all its psychological complexity and richness, and its relative opacity or incommunicability – provides the