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Eisenstein’s first auto/biography

This article traces director Sergei Eisenstein’s involvement with literary biography and autobiography, first as a reader, then as a subject and, finally, as a writer. These projects in all their variations are gathered under the term auto/biography. They are usually attributed to Eisenstein’s later years, after his return from the trip to the West in 1929. Apart from cultivating and to an extent controlling his biographers, such as Ivan Aksenov and Marie Seton, Eisenstein made a profound impression on his friends, students,and collaborators at home and abroad, who wrote various memoirs and reminiscences of him. More importantly, ultimately Eisenstein himself had to become Eckermann to his own inner Goethe, Boswell to his own Dr Johnson, and Jean-Jacques Brousson to his own Anatole France. The transformation of this last pair within Eisenstein’s thinking during the 1920s shows that already at that time he went from identification with Brousson to identification with France, promoting himself from a position of biographer to a position of one worthy of a biography, even if he had to write it himself. His first biography was also envisioned in 1929, several years before the official ‘first’ biographers, Aksenov and Seton, entered the picture.