Incipits of the biography – the convention or the game with the reader

Abstract

The author discusses the ways in which biographies are started showing the specificity of text segmentation characteristic of this genre and pointing to its convergence with literature or journalism, which is part of the general tendency of genomic transformations and the striving of the authors to break the standards of the genre. She emphasis the role of the delimitation in the process of creating a holistic text (with particular reference of biographies which were given after 2000).