Intertextuality in Telling the TruthStorytelling aims to establish truth and develop understanding. Joan Didion's novel The White Album is an eye-opening account of events in the 1960s. Didion gives honest and thoughtful snapshots of this turbulent era, focusing on the mundane and personal in a very informative and intimate that helps you understand what life was like at that time. Through its unique use of intertextuality, that is, the interrelationship between texts, one can see the different ways in which truth is shaped and presented. Narratives are strongly shaped from earlier texts through the use of personal values ​​in evaluating the stories, the use of direct quotations, and the criticism and rejection of earlier texts. The elegant intersection of personal memory and cultural memory in The White Album allows its readers to establish their own identity with its content by also understanding the speaker's point of view, thereby giving narrative authority a source of authenticity. Analysis of the stories told shows both the formation of the main story and the effect of the speaker's position on the shape of the story. A person's association within society shapes that individual's stories. The way in which members tell their own stories within a field of prior texts also examines notions of intertextuality, showing how the truth in the narratives is further shaped in relation to the speaker's personal texts and opinions. How people tell their own stories within an institution reveals the small connections and minute traces between how individual stories are shaped to harmonize with the events and values ​​of the main institutional narrative (Linde 4) . An individual's story is not only personal, but is produced...... middle of paper...... his own inner journey during the tumultuous period of the sixties, in addition to executing a mixture of people and places portraits with an original consideration of American cultural trends and movements. The entire collection thus constitutes a true autobiographical work. All of these factors in the novel are made possible through Didion's expert use of intertextuality. The inclusion of diverse texts and meanings shapes and presents the truth found in the narrative in a unique way for each of its readers. Works Cited Barthes, Roland and Stephen Heath. Image, Music, Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. Semiotics for Beginners. Web.Didion, Joan. The White Album. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Print. Linde, Charlotte. Working on the past: narrative and institutional memory. Np: Oxford UP, 2009. Oxford Scholarship Online. January 2009. Web.