President Clinton believes that former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's autobiographical confession that the Vietnam War was a terrible mistake vindicates his own youthful opposition to the war, the White House said today.

Indeed, the reader is encouraged to read this novel as a kind of autobiographical confession.

There are autobiographical confessions, meditations on death and fate and writing, harsh descriptions of prison life and sudden, dreamy passages of intense lyrical beauty.

She also continued the autobiographical confession initiated in Banished Knowledge about her abusive mother.

For a piece that presents itself as a self-critical, autobiographical confession, the monologue seems resolutely unrevealing and risk free.

Mr. Fellini's most clearly autobiographical confession, "8 1/2," is an innovative romantic satire-fantasy about an egomaniacal film maker's moral and creative midlife crisis, his malaise and inability to make a movie.

In 1910 she published A woman and desire, an unacknowledged autobiographical confession that enabled her to express a few truths about female psychology and women's roles in society.

As a prelude to his encounter with Old Possum, the Dirty Harry of contemporary critical theory (as The Village Voice has memorably called him) offers us an autobiographical "confession."