Portrait (literature)

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In literature, portrait refers to the literary representation of a person, a landscape or an object as a small category or genre . The expression is based on the portrait of the visual arts, which tries to express the essence or personality of a person: A literary portrait often gives a deep insight and offers a differentiated and comprehensive representation. Important literary portraitists include a. Elias Canetti , Stefan Zweig or WG Sebald .

See also

• Genre of literature Biography , written description
• Image of life
• Who's Who - a dictionary with short portraits of selected personalities
• Musical portrait , e.g. B. Duke Ellington's Portrait of Mahalia Jackson .
• Film portrait , e.g. B. The woman with the 5 elephants or have you ever been in love with me?
• Biography