In one magnificent moment, author Lukas Hørslev understands that exactly 100 years after his death a biography will be written about him. This sudden insight makes him realise that the life he is living is not worthy of being written about. In order to ensure that his future biography will be good and interesting, he must from this moment onward learn how to live biographically. By making himself the subject of a future chronicle, Lukas Hørslev must view his life through new eyes, re-evaluate his past, his upbringing and education, his role as a husband and father, but also his future, based on ideas and sheer guess-work, in hopes of fulfilling the biography’s requirements.

Living Biographically is a novel that illustrates the role of fiction in our lives and in an original manner enables the reader to view one small life in the light of history and literary tradition.