On   the   one   hand,   biography   is   in   part   a   literary   genre,   long   disparaged   as   minor   —   but   after   Deleuze   this   should   rather   be   considered   as   a   promising   asset.   What   some   German   scholars   call   its   “Theorieresistenz”   is   much   less   a   resistance   to   theorisation   that   would   be   inherent  to  biography,  than  a  resistance  of  “theory”  to  biography,  due  to  the   particular   bend   of   a   period   in   the   history   of   the   humanities,   and   especially   literary   science,   characterised   by   the   hegemony   of   literary   theory   over   literary  history  and  criticism.  On  the  other  hand,  biography  imposes  itself  de   facto   as   a   practice,   that   for   all   intents   and   purposes   seems   central   to   some   post‑“theory"  advancements  in  the  humanities.