It probably is at least in part, but mainly it is probably intended to be fiction or fictionalized biography.

最少一部分是，可是结果大相径庭,大篇都是虚构或文学小说化了的自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So Roth imagines lived life as fictional in the same register as a novel, in the same register as an autobiography.

所以罗斯想像过的生活就像小说中记录的那样，一如自传所述。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And there you are, and, for the next 40 years, no one ever sees the novel that you wrote, or the autobiography that you wrote originally.

就这样，在这之后的40年里，没有人看到你写的小说，或者你最初的自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We finished Black Boy last time, and one of the big questions coming out of my discussion of that autobiography is: how do you manage the question of context in reading a novel or an autobiography--in reading any text?

我们上次讲完了《黑孩子》,在关于那部自传的讨论中随之而来,的一个重要问题是：,当你在读小说、自传或者其他文本时,怎么处理上下文？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So this novel, this autobiography, begins with the sense that this boy is in danger from practically the moment he comes into the world, the moment he comes into consciousness.

这小说，这自传，让人一开始,就觉得这孩子,一生下来，就浸泡在苦水里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Now the part about his life in Chicago was I'm going to keep doing this, call it the novel versus the autobiography, and I'll explain why I make that mistake a little later--it was cut from the autobiography.

他在芝加哥的生活那部分,我会一直把这书叫做小说，而不是自传,我之后会解释为什么犯这样的错误,这书是从自传的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选